On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:49:48PM -0800, Carl Riches wrote: > On 22 Nov 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > 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. That's exactly what I'm seeing with 8.0, though I think it might be easier to point it at an FTP-based installation tree rather than swap CDs - at least the entire installation can go by unattended. It's still not a good solution for us because our post-install scripts, etc, rely on the NFS environment... Our NFS server was running Tru64 5.1 a week ago; same problem then, so it's not just an issue with 5.1a (not much of a point but I thought I'd mention it). Graham -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham Allan School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------------------------------
