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

[Spacey <space_biscuit@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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%)
> >
> 
> Did you try with a hub or a switch using regular patch cables?
> Try it both ways...
> 
> What kind of a NIC do you have in the PC?
> Some NIC card drivers will drop a connection hat has been idle for a period of 
> time. Which sounds to me is your problem. As the RaQ is still attempting to 
> comunicate but the PC is not responding.

Gerald,

The NIC I'm using for the DHCP OS-Restore server is a "3-Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100".
I have not tried two cables and a hub-port because a friend has my port.  By "regular patch
cables" do you mean regular networking cables... "Cat-5" as I think they're called?

Theo



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