I've gotten past the previous NFS errors, and now have FAI specific errors :)
I see the boot of FAI going, it loads the network card, the hard drive controller, and then it gets to runlevel 2 and stops. here's the output: Initializing random number generator....done. Optimizing hardware... INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 FAI: installation aborted. reboot with: faireboot or after a logout sh: no job control in this shell and that's it. faimond doesn't show anything. I previously had an error about the file system being readonly, so I change my export from: /diskless_ro 128.59.16.0/255.255.248.0(async,ro,no_root_squash) to /diskless_ro 128.59.16.0/255.255.248.0(async,rw,no_root_squash) and it got past that. Then I saw some mail thread by Yuri Adrián González Robles and tried changning the pxelinux.cfg boot config line. currently the file consists of: label fai-generated kernel vmlinuz-install append auto rw ip=dhcp devfs=nomount FAI_ACTION=install root=/dev/nfs FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd I also chmod -R a+r /diskless_ro...should I try a+rw ? regards, Dan