Eaon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Trying to install via NFS and it just won't do it. IBM Aptiva C30 (if
> that means anything to anyone - a friend gave it to me for free because
> he got a job in the Caribbean and couldn't take it with him - I cried
> for him, really, but I promised to give the system a good home).
> Pentium 233, 3c509 ISA NIC, 48 MB RAM (so I have to use NFS, since FTP
> and HTTP require 52 MB - who picked that number?? ;-) ), and a first
We. Ramdisk takes RAM.
> generation DVD drive that steadfastly refuses to read burned CDs,
> leaving NFS as the only way to get the code in there.
>
> When I supply the IP (all IPs are static) and path to where the files
> are located, then hit enter, I can see on the hub that the lights for
> the client and server machines are blinking together (and that's the
> only network traffic there is), so there is some form of communication,
> but they blink about 5 or 6 times then it tells me it couldn't mount the
> directory. There is no error on the logs console on the client (no "RPC
> Timeout" or anything, just the "preparing nfsmount" line, that's the
> last thing). I pretty sure that the hardware is good - the system had
Strange. I'm pretty sure you should have at least one of the following
error message:
NFS server says: No such file or directory
NFS server says: Permission denied
nfsmount prepare failed, reason given by server: %d
mount failed: %s
Are you sure you have nothing on log console?
Also, pleasy try to nfs mount from a valid host. This nfs mount stuff
should do it. Please also try to have a 2.4 kernel on the nfs server,
there are some weird incompatibilities between different kernels for
server and client sometimes.
> Win95 on it when I got it (like I said, I told him I'd treat it well, so
> to keep that promise, Win95 had to go) and I was able to browse the net,
> and in a fit of frustration when Mandrake wouldn't work I installed
> OpenBSD via FTP (they don't have a 52 meg limit ;-) ), connecting to
They don't have a graphical install -- do they? ;-)
> the same server machine as I tried for NFS, and that all worked. From
> the server side, I was able to mount the cooker location from a third
> machine via NFS, so I am pretty sure that is working too. The server is
> LM7.2. The "third location" machine is another cooker install.
Please try with an alternatives/network.img to have a 2.2.19 kernel, so we
can understand if it's incompatibility between kernels.
> Oh, ya, and I tried all three network boot disks (the main network.img
> and the two "alternatives"), and it didn't help any.
Argh. Well.
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
