On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 13:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:17, Terry Polzin wrote: > >On Saturday January 22 2005 23:42, William Hooper wrote: > >> Gene Heskett said: > >> >>> 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) > >> > >> That would tend to rule out the network driver then. > >> > >> A couple more suggestions: > >> > >> Remove the extra ISOs. You mention that you put all 9 in there. > >> I don't recall if it matters, but you might try removing all but > >> the 4 needed for install. > >> > >> Double check permissions on the ISO files. > >> > >> It's been too long since I set mine up (and it is in a WBEL box), > >> but my NFS export has the "no_subtree_check" option. I seem to > >> recall having issues until I added it. > > > >What are the perms on the NFS directory at the host? I rembember > > having a problem with this once a while back. Check the archives, > > I believe I posted my own problem and solutilon > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 19 00:37 FC3 > and > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 19:49 download.fedora.redhat.com > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 646987776 Nov 3 17:05 FC3-i386-disc1.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 668520448 Nov 3 17:07 FC3-i386-disc2.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 667498496 Nov 11 22:59 FC3-i386-disc3.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 404764672 Nov 12 00:29 FC3-i386-disc4.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 79908864 Nov 3 16:59 FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 589832192 Nov 3 17:11 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 589844480 Nov 3 17:12 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 589815808 Nov 3 17:13 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 589817856 Nov 3 17:15 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 jhines jhines 791 Nov 3 18:00 MD5SUM > > ATM its moot, I *think* I have a cd install going, without any of > the i18n stuffs though. > > I note that a friend of mine is the owner etc of some of those, > which is a puzzle because he doesn't have an account on > this machine, nor can I give him one in view of my firewalling > from the outside. So I have a certified case of NDI how they > got that owner:group attached. They were downloaded by me, as > root, using gftp since it can just keep hammering a slow site > till it gets it all. And most of redhats machines can be considered > as somewhere between slow and really slow, often dropping well > below 3k a second on a 90k a second dsl connection here, or just > plain stopping, after 45 seconds of which gftp disconnects & retrys. > > That makes trying to grab an iso pretty frustrating at times. I'm > only a state away, so to use the closest mirror means either duke or > redhat themselves. Theres one in Pittsburgh, but its connections > are usually all used up. I think its limit is 15 or some such. :( > As far as the downloads go, sometimes the closest physically is not the best choice. I have often used a mirror site in japan and get much faster speeds than from several of the sites here in the US.
