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From: nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Joonwoo Nam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-960501-SNAP install over NFS woes
Date: 30 May 1996 03:15:48 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@gracie.lbl.gov) wrote:
: 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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I was away from FreeBSD since 2.1 so that I have no idea either why
this happens. The farthest point I could be able to reach while
installing 2.2-960501-SNAP was where extracting bin/bin.aa.
As for the ethernet board, I am using 3C509(not 509B) eval. boards
on either side of NFS sold by 3COM at two for $99 about a year ago
or so. By the way, when I chose:

/dist/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE	*.my.domain (ro,insecure)

under /etc/exports@Linux, NFS installation went perfectly without
changing any default setting at the (FreeBSD) client side.

--
Joonwoo Nam
MAGNUMS(MAssachusetts Group for NUMerical analysis of Semiconductors)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMASS at Amherst
e-mail:nam@nazgul.ecs.umass.edu / work:413-545-4762 / fax:413-545-4611
http://khushi.ecs.umass.edu/~nam