Liz, I did not read completely before sending my answer, please disregard. Does the PC you are trying to load have an e1000 Ethernet card? There is a bug with Anaconda that makes an e1000 Ethernet card(and some others) fail the first kickstart attempt and succeed when you click "OK". John -----Original Message----- From: Poole, John J Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:56 PM To: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: kickstart nfs query Liz, I think you need to add your nfs install directory to /etc/exports, allow read access to the client pc and do an "exportfs -a". John John J. Poole