From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; AIX 4.3) During an NFS install of Fisher, the machine being installed fails to mount the exported install directory because the NFS server is running the nfsd V2 this is the same as defect 17609 that was opened for the Guinness release [RedHat 7.0]. Under Guinness I had downloaded the alternate bootdisk that was made available under the defect. Unfortunately the same bootdisk does not work under Fisher. This ought to be fixed in the base distribution since there are a substantial amount of places where folks have NFS servers running NFS V2 daemons. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the network boot disk to install the machine using an NFS server running NFS V2 daemon. 2. 3.
the boot disk forces the kernel into NVSv2 mode. What are you using for a server, and are there any log messages on the server that could give a clue on why the mount is failing? We use NFSv2 only servers here all the time.
I found out the problem. It turns out that the machine had a faulty NIC that was acting up. I replaced the NIC and the install went smoothly. Please close the defect at your convenience. Thanks for your help and prompt response.
*phew*. ;)