I also have it hang on me, but this is only with graphics mode from what I can tell so far. I wasn't able to reproduce the problem you had. On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Johnathan Kupferer wrote: > I was installing Fedora Core 1 in a lab with about 10 computers. The > first machine we did a simple CD install, then created an NFS share > (/var/ftp/pub/fedora-core-1) and copied all the CD data to it. We then > made a kickstart boot disk and proceeded to do NFS installs on all the > other stations, pretty straight forward stuff. About ten minutes into > it, the NFS installs froze. We waited a while and noticed some *very* > slow activity on some of the machines (like one package in 15 minutes). > Figuring it could be a simple disk access issue on the server, we killed > all but two of the installs and waited... no improvement was seen. We > then attempted to restart the NFS server with (service nfs restart). It > stopped everything okay, but then hung when attempting to restart nfs. > Out of frustration we then rebooted that machine and when it came up the > remaining installs started to fly through packages like they had > initially... for about ten minutes. Same deal again, installs hung and > we couldn't restart NFS. A reboot cleared it. I checked out > /var/log/messages but didn't see anything. This time it finished, but > in the meantime we installed the rest of the lab with the CD. Sorry I > don't have more detailed info, we were in a rush to get the lab back up > for a class. > > I'll try to repeat this tonight. My hunch is its an NFS issue and I > just happened to run accross it with these installs. > > Also I should mention a few months ago we installed RH9 in this lab > using NFS and kickstart just like this and had no issues. > > Has anyone else noticed issues like this? Anyone done a bunch of > concurent NFS installs and *NOT* noticed this issue? > > ----- begin /etc/exports ----- > /var/ftp/pub *(ro) > ----- end /etc/exports ----- > > - Johnathan > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
