On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 01:15, David Walser wrote: > Does *anybody* do NFS installs? Is it broken? What's > the deal?
I've not tried NFS, but i've had equally big problems with an FTP install recently, on two different platforms whose only common feature is the floppy drive (Sony USB floppy.) It just crashes out immediately after setting the network parameters citing 'fatal error' on the main console but with nothing obvious having gone wrong on the others. People familiar with the install process, would it be trying to access the floppy at this point? If so, would it be confused by the floppy not appearing at /dev/fd0? i've had consistent problems with USB floppies and Linux installations, all of which could be solved simply by making the install process look for the floppy drive at /dev/sda as well as at /dev/fd0...but it seems a trifle early in the process for this to raise its head, at the equivalent point in the other installs that failed they were still working and still reading the drive... -- adamw
