total NFS newbie needs help

Tony Dietrich td at transoft.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 22 09:03:19 UTC 2005


On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 02:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 16:45, William Hooper wrote:
> >Gene Heskett said:
> >[snip]
> >
> >> But I cannot connect with the NFS choice on the machine I'm trying
> >> to install FC3 on.  And at the point in the install, there is no
> >> other shell available, so all I can see is the cannot connect
> >> messages once I've filled in the address of this box and the path
> >> on this box to those iso's.
> >
> >What are you putting inf for those values?
>
> The correct data for this machine, either as the FQDN or its
> 192.168.xx.xx address, and the path on this machine thats exported,
> as in '/usr/dlds-misc/FC3'
>
> >> So at this point I have no idea if the network driver
> >> the installer has loaded is wrong or what.
> >
> >Check the log on the nfs server for connection attempts.
>
> It logs an authenticated connection but doesn't say if successfull or
> not, here is all that shows up in messages:
>
> Jan 21 19:43:09 coyote rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
> shop.coyote.den:786 for /usr/dlds-misc/FC3 (/usr/dlds-misc/FC3)
>
> then silence till the next time I go thru that loop on the target box.
>
> >--
> >William Hooper
Just a 'me too' here ... I have a disk set for FC2 that exhibited the same 
problem ... and an identical disk set, burnt from the same ISO files, that 
works perfectly.

With both sets, insert disk 1, select network install, works with one of the 
disks, doesn't with the other.

I have no explanation.

-- 
Tony Dietrich
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