Roger, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
The install kernel boots. At some point it wants to get a DHCP address for the ethernet card. This 'should' be working as it got an address when it first booted. I see this in the server's /var/log/messages. But this seems to timeout. My dhcp entry is:
host jboc1 {
filename "/suseInstall/pxelinux.0"; fixed-address 192.30.105.204; hardware ethernet 00:30:48:56:38:B2; next-server 192.30.105.201; option host-name "jboc1"; }
192.30.105.201 is the server for everything (dhcp, pxe, suse install)
After this, I get a message that the SUSE installation source cannot be found. When trying to set it up by hand (nice it does that), I see that the default values it offers are the ones I expect (despite the probable DHCP oddness). But when it tries to mount the nfs install source, it fails with 'unknown error -1'.
Have you checked whether the nfs-export works properly, e.g. by mounting it manually? I had a similar problem, where I tried to export a loop-mounted directory tree. Only, a userspace-nfsserver can do that. Peter.