On 22 Nov 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "CR" == Carl Riches <riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > CR> The installer thinks that it is making the mount call, but there > CR> is no traffic to the Tru64 Unix 5.1a server. > > I know this is a long shot but it's worth a try: are you absolutely > sure that you're not having an ARP issue? I've had issues where one > machine will install fine, but then another won't because the DHCP > server handed out the same IP address (after all, the first machine > specifically let go of its lease) but the ARP cache on the server had > yet to expire. > It fails even when the client has a static IP address, the kickstart file is on a floppy disk and the only thing to find via NFS is the CD images. Beginning with Red Hat 7.3 we had to do a floppy-based kickstart and have the CDs to hand, swapping them out as requested by the installer. The Red Hat 7.3 installer just won't do NFS with a Tru64 Unix 5.1a system. Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
