NFS Install Hangs

[Johnathan Kupferer]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>On Nov 12, 2003, Johnathan Kupferer <johnathan at gnuthought.com> wrote:
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>>About ten minutes into it, the NFS installs froze.
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>I've experienced similar behavior on all memory-starved hosts I tried
>to install to at the uni the other day.  Graphical installs would
>consistently get blocked at varying points.  Text installs completed
>without a hitch.  This was on 64-MiB boxes, FWIW.  No useful messages
>in any of the VTs, and not a real hang.  Since the Release Notes
>mentioned 192MiB was a minimum for graphical, I went with text, and
>that worked.
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All the machines in the lab have 512MB of ram so there shouldn't have 
been memory issues.  Also since I ran through the same steps with RedHat 
9 in the same lab a few months ago I don't think its hardware related.