On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Graham Allan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:32:44PM -0600, 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. > > Thanks for the thought, it would be a good idea if the IP were dynamic, > but in this case the DHCP server is handing out a static address to any > given MAC. > > I'm wondering if there is anything we can pull apart or change from > initrd.img, perhaps to force the use of NFSv2 or something? > Graham-- Back in the days of Red Hat 6.2 (gosh, that makes it sound like I'm an old man...) there was a version argument to the "nfs" directive in the kickstart file. It did not work for Red Hat 7.3 and I was unable to get into the installer code to figure out what, if any, comparable feature might exist. I wonder if we should register this with bugzilla? 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
