Hello Charles,
> 1. Right after the terminal has obtained the necessary info from DHCP, the
> terminal starts to download the vmlinuz image via tftp. Sometimes the
> download flies through in a few seconds, other times it downloads for a few
> seconds then stops and occasionally has a ... (NBI)... in the hash trail. If
> it stops, I have to reboot the terminal as the download never completes.
> During this time, there are no obvious error entries /var/log/messages.
This looks - if it only client-dependant - like an etherboot-problem.
Please check your server config first - as A.J.Venter suggests. If the
problem persists, you could report it on the etherboot-users list.
Some necessary dates to be given (in rough order):
- Etherboot version
- Is the error recoverable? Exact output?
- Network card type
- Options specified when compiling/downloading from romomatic
- Cabling type (Switch, hub) - there are problems with certain
switches
- ???
> 2. I have not been able to successfully create or attach to an NFS swap. It
> always fails. The terminal I am using only has 32 MB memory and cannot be
> upgraded. So I think I have to go with an NFS swap partition.
We have several 486er with 24M each, they don't NFS-swap (no
local-apps of course), users a happy. Speed is sometimes a bit sluggy
- they are only networked with 10MBit BNC, which cannot be changed.
It's definitively the network, as only 1 client works fine; loading
20MB via that wire to a win3.11 box slows down everything.
> 3. Lastly, the terminal hangs when it gets to the mount section, again no
> error messages in /var/log/messages.
On Debian, /var/log/daemon.log sometimes contains information too.
That said, you could try to play with NFS-v3(?)-support - switch
on/off. That helped us long time ago. Well, I was a beginner then! And
am no NFS pro today.
Best regards,
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service
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