I am having this same problem. It freezes at the "Determining
Hostname and Domain" screen. After about 10 minutes, it continues
on. I have PXE kickstarts for 7.3, 9.0, three versions of RHEL 3,
and RHEL 4. RHEL 4 is the first one to do this to me, yet the
configs are all very close together, and are identical
network-wise. Furthermore, anything based on RHEL4 (CentOS,
Trustix) does the same thing. I would assume it's doing a name
lookup and it's having trouble finishing it. But, according to
what's going on in the virtual terminals, it is able to get its IP and
find its domain name.<br>
<br>
Koree<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rik Herrin</b> <<a href="mailto:rikherrin@yahoo.com">rikherrin@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br> I'm experiencing a strange RHEL v4 specific issue.<br>For some reason, Kickstart is taking a very long time<br>to start installing packages. I'm installing from an<br>nfs server and the ks file is located on the nfs
<br>server. Anaconda quickly gets a DHCP request and goes<br>through everything at a reasonable rate until it<br>reaches the screen where it is about to install<br>software (after it has completed the formatting). It<br>
then "hangs" for about 5-10 minutes before continuing.<br> Even when installing software, I feel that it is<br>quite slow. I had the exact same setup on RHEL v3 and<br>it was about twice as fast. Furthermore, on RHEL v3,
<br>there was no delay in any part of the installation. I<br>checked that traffic on the network and there was<br>basically no traffic except for the installation (I<br>had only a single machine installing). After taking
<br>some time to install the packages, the installation is<br>successful. However, I was wondering why it takes so<br>long to start installing the packages. Any ideas?<br>Thanks for your time.<br><br>PS. I attached the kickstart file if anyone's interested.
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