Can you put an option in somewhere to allow to go to a command prompt before configuring the network so that these problems can be debugged? -- Todd Blevins On Tue, 1 May 2001, Florian La Roche wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:55:48PM -0400, Todd Blevins wrote: > > > > I'm trying to use a CTC connection to an existing linux machine, and the new > > machine seems to hang right after portmapper starts up (i can see the ctc0 > > We want to get ftp/http support done until end of this week. Maybe this > solves your problems. After the portmapper is started, we immediately > start a NFS mount and I would suspect that this hangs for you: > echo "Starting portmap." > portmap > mount -o rw,rsize=8192 -t nfs $NFSROOT /mnt/target > mount -t proc proc /mnt/target/proc > > > get configured and can ping, but i can't telnet in). Is there anyway to get > > a command line prompt on the 3270 screen to see whats going on? > > There would be a command line prompt later on, but not if things hang > here. :-( > > Florian La Roche >