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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-960501-SNAP install over NFS woes
Date: 28 May 1996 22:35:14 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <4obs7v$i2g@risky.ecs.umass.edu>,
Joonwoo Nam <nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu> wrote:
>I am trying to install 2.2-960501-SNAP from NFS partition resides
>under Linux 1.2.13 box but in vain. As soon as I saw successful
>nfs mount partition from under FreeBSD, it hangs forever(found to be
>not successful later from debug messages in 2nd console).
>Since I suspected rpc.nfsd/rpc.mountd under Linux, I upgraded to
>nfs-server-2.2beta16 but this gives the same result. The exactly
>same setup used to be working fine when installing Freebsd 2.1-RELEASE
>sometime ago. As a further trial, I restarted installing from floppy
>and cheat the install program to lead to create virtual shell and
>then I tried manually mount NFS partition and it says:
>port map failure blah blah blah....
>Is this because I didn't hack the NFS option properly by not changing
>the 'default setting' ?
>
>Any ideas,
>Thanks,
>Joonwoo

Something has been changed in 2.2-all-SNAP. I had same problem on our
entire network. It does not matter what server we use (Sun, BSD, ...),
the installation hangs when the /dist mounted. 
I tried to trace the problem on boot floppy, but I do have enough time
to do so.  Another thing thing may related to this problem is that
rlogin will also hang if something badly hapened on the network, and
I kill the rlogin and try redo the rlogin, the rlogin won't start with
15-20 minutes. Very strange.
I am curious what type of ethernet card you are having the problem?
I am using 3Com 509B. If you are using the same type of card, maybe the
problem is in the if_ep.c; otherwise, it is the NFS problem.
It is appreciated if you would provide some above information.

Thanks,


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