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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!uniserve!n2van.istar!van.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-960501-SNAP install over NFS Date: 1 Jun 1996 04:36:26 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4oodrq$588@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4of7tr$otl@risky.ecs.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Joonwoo Nam (nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu) wrote: : I am trying to install 2.2-960501-SNAP over NFS from a partition : resides under Linux running nfs-server-beta16. I chose 'secure port' : to allow privileged port access and NFS partition mounting was : successful. However, while extracting 'bin' series, FreeBSD box : hangs without any response. Any ideas ? : By the way, 2.1-RELEASE installation over NFS had been working fine : with the same NFS server. Is it then O.K. to use 2.1 boot floppy : without any loss of new features of 2.2-960501-SNAP ? : Thanks, : Joonwoo When this happens, can you ping ? If not, try re-ifconfig'ing your interface. I can't consistently reproduce this, but it happens frequently and always after the network card's transmit buffers overflow. I've been assuming that it's the nep driver, but it may not be.... -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....