You can view the messages in one of the other VTs ( alt-2, alt-3 ). Another thing to try: use tcpdump on the NFS server and see what's going on. Once we experienced weird flakiness with kickstart; turned out it was the Cisco switch. Setting the STP on the port to "port-fast" fixed that. On 7 Dec 2004 18:34:34 -0500, Robinson, Andrew W. <andrew.w.robinson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I ran into an odd problem with a network installation. I am hoping someone > can provide some insight. > . . . . . > Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be going on here?