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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