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Installer problem



I had a bit of a problem trying to install a diskless workstation.  I boot 
it up via a lifimage on a tftp/bootp server.  The lifimage on the Debian 
site apparently doesn't like my video card, so I grabbed one from a recent 
test iso.  This one liked my display, but didn't see my keyboard.. So I 
rolled my own kernel, ran make palo w/ the root.bin as the ramdisk.  This 
one booted and saw my keyboard and display.  But, when I try to mount a 
nfs directory, it hangs.  I can switch to the shell console and ping and 
stuff, but I can't mount the thing.  I can mount it from another box.  I 
tried disabling nfsv3 support in the kernel, but then it says "File not 
found" and still won't mount it.  Do you have any ideas how to make this 
work?  I am going to use a serial console tomorrow and try the other 
lifimages.  I remember having done the NFS thing before with an earlier 
lifimage.  But that time the NFS server was a Mandrake box on Intel.  This 
server is another parisc workstation.  I have enough disk space left over 
that I thought I would put some of it to good use and take over another 
HP-UX box.  I could use it anyway, most times, except I don't have a 
proper hard drive that plugs into the drive cage...  I have to keep HPUX 
intact for when they need it for testing and stuff, but for the in-between 
times where they aren't using them anyway, I can run linux on them.

-- 
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
		-- Stevenson, "Treasure Island"


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