From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: When installing RedHat 7.2 from a server also running RedHat 7.2 the nfsd deamons on the server all locked with status DW as reported by ps. reported system load was high, but system response still OK. Needless to say -- the install didn't work. Point in install process where this happened was different on two installs (didn't try more -- NFS server is a production machine, and needs a reboot after the failure) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot NFS server, export tree of RedHat 7.2 disk 1 and 2 (overlayed over each other) 2. boot to-be-installed machine with bootnet.img image 3. select NFS install 4. go through install dialogs Actual Results: All nfsd deamons (8 of them) end up in DW state. Before this throughput seems excellent. Expected Results: All nfsd deamons should only have the 'D' status when doing actual disk I/O Additional info: relevant rpm's (updated from RedHat 7.2 distribution by RedHat errata:) kernel-2.4.9.-13 glibc-2.2.4-19 nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1 (as reported by rpm -qa) Custom kernel configuration on server Server is a single CPU Pentium IV 1.7 Ghz Exported disk is a VFAT file system, on a (fast) IDE disk. Both network cards support 100Mbit operation Network cards connected through company hub/switch (I don't know what)
The current version of nfsd in the kernel does not allow the exporting of FAT based file systems. You might want to try copying the ISO's to and EXT3 partition.