On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Michael Jinks wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Darrin.  By following it through and finding out
> the answers to your questions, I found a couple of things I'd been doing
> wrong.  For one thing, I hadn't realized that /usr/mdec/boot was a boot
> loader and not the kernel.  That led to the realization that I hadn't
> installed the kernel in the first place.  Oops.
> 
	If you have any suggestions for changes to the docs to make it more
	obvious - please let us know! :)

> The machine serving as tftp and bootp server is a RedHat Linux box,
> kernel version 2.2.5-intel.
> 
	There is a problem with redhat 6.0 with the kernel nfs support
	- the mountd accepts nfs3 mount requests but the OS only
	implements nfs2. This of course works perfectly with other
	linux boxes as they only ever talk nfs2, but screws over any OS
	bold enough to actually want to use nfs3... 
	(Just on the offchance you're hitting that :)

	One option if you have a scratch i386 disk would be to install
	NetBSD/i386 and use it as a server - it would probably be easier
	for people on this list to diagnose any problems in this case
	:)



		David/absolute

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