[cobalt-users] Raq4i OS-Restore CD >> Same Results (Pause/nfs failure)

[Spacey <space_biscuit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

OK.. I tried a 4/4i restore disk this time on my 3i machine and came to the same results.  My
blue-box will start from the net-bootup selection, and get through all the formatting of the hard
drive, etc., but then it halts again at this nfs test:

  nfs: server not responding, still trying
  nfs: server not responding, still trying

On the LCD panel it reads:

  30001E 1.72
  rpm 6/261 (0%)

It seems that when it tries to contact back to the DHCP Restore-Server that it
cannot connect back to it...  I tried on both my NIC ports just to make sure one of my ports
wasn't blown also...

So... what confuses me is... , if it can connect at first and initiate the whole install process
from the DHCP Restore Server, why the NFS test fails...? I am using at "patch"/crossover cable
direct ,  machine to machine.  This cable has the following printed on it:

Belkin Components Category 5e Patch Cable #RJ304 Verified (UL) CAT 5e 4PR 24AWG Type CM MP E129760

but at one end it has a lable taped to it saying "Cross-Over"....

So... any advice at this stage... I'm starting to go crazy with this whole thing!!!
So close but no cigar!

Thanks!,

Theo



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