Re: Kickstart doesn't?

[Jim Cornette <redhat-jc insight rr com>]

Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I'm netbooting into the Fedora (test 1.90) installer, and the installer 
> is having a hard time aquiring a lease from my DHCP server (ISC DHCP 
> version whatever's-current-in-redhat-9).  I see the requests going out, 
> an the following errors in the syslog on the DHCP server:
>
>  Feb 27 19:54:38 flowers dhcpd: fallback_discard: Resource temporarily 
> unavailable
>
> What's more:
>
> - The PXE loader (pxelinux) is able to aquire a lease w/o a problem, and
> - The second stage installer is also able to aquire a lease.
>
> This system is using a 3Com 3C905C-TXM NIC.

I have a working
 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)

I did have a rev B card that was troublesome and no longer have the card.

By my thoughts, it is something other than the NIC. I believe it only 
effected revs before C.

Jim

> I recall seeing a similar issue discussed in the archives, but I'm 
> unable to search the archives at the moment ("redhat.com is temporarily 
> unavailable. Please try back later.").  Has anyone else run into this 
> problem?
>
> -- Lars
  "You see what I mean?  There's *always*
that doubt!"