-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:24:05 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:03:37PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:52:52 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:51:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard > > > > wrote: > > > > > Currently, MOUNTDIR does not support nfsroot so needs to be > > > > > commented out completely. > > > > > > > > ugh. > > > > > > Well, actually... Looking at FsEntry.pm and other code it might > > > actually be supported somehow - or support is halfway there... > > > > It's recognised as something we can't support. Mounting eg > > 'www.debian.org:/boot' would require name resolution, and there's > > way too much guesswork involved in doing that on the initial boot > > disk: do you want /etc/hosts? LDAP? NIS? DNS? There's other > > unpleasantness involved in trying to interpret nfs partitions from > > fstab on the boot image, but this is the most obvious one. > > What about runing host www.debian.org and using the returned IP > address ? Do host not require name resolving based on either /etc/hosts, LDAP, NIS, DNS or other NSS plugins? I believe "host" is a concrete tool to use, but not an answer to the question raised above by Erik. Erik: Would it make sense to allow static IP, and only choke on non-IP value before the colon in fstab? - Jonas - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZ+Bwn7DbMsAkQLgRAjT8AKCHEh+Yx6ddZ+Uda/O0WArMDCug7wCfT+Ad zh1KB68cGXhIpGcYzJ+M8lY= =ZM3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
