Yes, I had the same experience on i386 with diskless-0.3.7 package. But I believe it is fixed now. You need to have these lines for debian: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback Hope this helps, Min Adrian Cox wrote: > I've been installing Debian on diskless PowerPC boards a lot recently, > while writing a user guide to our boards. I've run into a problem with > NFS mounting. > > Firstly, I'm using the patches from nfs.sourceforge.net, as without them > a diskless PowerPC machine can be unreliable. When the installer starts > on a diskless system, the first thing it does is to mount the root > filesystem. The problem is that the loopback interface isn't up, and the > nolock option isn't specified, so that it times out trying to contact > the portmapper. > > The clue was packets addressed to 127.0.0.1 being sent out through eth0. > My workaround is to manually bring up the loopback interface first. > > Has anybody else run into this? > > - Adrian Cox, AG Electronics > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
