This thread has been proving rather interesting to me, as over the course of the summer I worked on building a network (using NFS) installer for Redhat 9, and have also done a number of Redhat 7.3 installs in the same fashion. As in the case of the original poster, each installation thus far has taken quite a bit longer than 15 - 18 minutes. I wasn't particularly impressed by the speed, but I set the issue aside for the moment as one that I probably couldn't do much about. The Redhat 7.3 boxes all appear to be using the eepro100 driver, and using scp I appear to be able to copy random files between boxes at good speed. Might the problems with the eepro100 driver only crop up with NFS? Have they been fixed in a Redhat kernel update RPM at some time or other? As far as the Redhat 9 kickstart installations are concerned, I have access to two of the boxes that I installed via kickstart. One of them appears to be using the eepro100 driver, whereas the other one is using the e100 driver. Once again, I could transfer files using scp at a good rate of speed. David Aikema Quoting Ajay Shekhawat <ajay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Memory's fuzzy, but I remember there used to be some issues with > the Intel EEPRO/100 cards. IIRC, there are 2 drivers out there for it, > and the default one was as slow as molasses. > > Do you have this particular NIC, by any chance? > > Ajay > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:31:08PM -0400, Wolak, Piotr wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I use kickstart install for installing Red Hat 9 clients. I have run into > > some issues with the FTP install method speed. I have attached the > ks.cfg. > > > > <snip> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
