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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.