On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Carl Riches wrote: > > We had this very problem with Red Hat 7.3. I believe that this is due to > a problem with the NFS version 3 code in the installer. The installer > thinks that it is making the mount call, but there is no traffic to the > Tru64 Unix 5.1a server. It worked fine for us under Red Hat 6.2 and 7.1 > and we'd hoped that this would have been fixed by Red Hat 8.0. Perhaps by > Red Hat 8.1? We were forced into doing floppy-based kickstarts. Ugh. I boot from floppy, get the ks file by http. Surely that works. FWIW I've given up NFS installs, it's too much trouble navigating my firewalls with NFS. I use http for the whole install. I have in mind that analysis of the webserver log should be used to order files on CD to speed CD installs. I think the current ordering is fairly random.
