> From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adam at whee.org] > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Chris Schumann wrote: > > > I'm trying a Slackware install over a network. I get NFS apparently > > working, but once it actually starts to install that first package > > (aaa_base?) it hangs. Then it says it's waiting for the NFS server. > > (That server is a 900MHz Athlon running Fedora Core 3 and NFS.) > > The NFS install should work - this sounds like something may > not be setup properly on the NFS server. What's the OS on > the server? Are you seeing anything in your logs from nfs, > mountd, portmap? How about doing a tcpdump on the server and > seeing how far the NFS negotiation is getting? > (yes, tcpdump is my solution to everything) It might be > something simple, like the server is forcing NFSv3 or TCP, > and slack doesn't support it. Again, the server is Fedora Core 3 with all patches. I haven't checked logs just yet. I'm a long-time Linux user, and have done some pretty heavy admin stuff (like getting cyrus-imapd running). I administer two Linux machines for my company, but I have not done much code or network debugging. Tips, pointers and mentoring would be much appreciated. It SHOULD work. And I have interrupted the process and been able to see the "drive" mounted and got good responses to ls and such, but when starting something with a little more bandwidth, it just locks up. I think there's an issue with stability in the driver (axnet_cs) on hardware this old... and the load the ISA bus has on the system. The machine is my ThinkPad 750P, which I have souped up to 36MB RAM and a 12GB disk. Really. > > Slackware bare+root only has wget and NFS. No ftp, no smb, so doing > > any kind of recursive copy is out... and NFS doesn't seem > to work too well. > > Have you thought about doing a floppy install? You're not > REALLY a slackware user until you've downloaded the disks > over a modem connection and done a full install with floppy :) At this point, a floppy install would be high on my list, but... I hate to break this to you, but Slackware no longer supports a floppy install. There are four options: Hard disk, NFS, pre-mounted and CD-ROM. Floppy has been removed from the menus even though it is still listed on http://www.slackware.com/install/setup.php. Should I try 9.1? Something older? Chris Schumann