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<A title=kkuphal@gmail.com href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">Kevin Kuphal</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><BR>I haven't followed the entire thread, but
another option is to use PXE to load gPXE which can then mount an iSCSI volume
as a boot drive. This gets around all the NFS issues you seem to be
having and there are instructions for some Linux versions like CentOS on the
PXE site. I'm helping a friend do this with a Zotac and so far it seems
to work very well.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">I used the Fedora 11 installer (expert mode) to
install directly to an iSCSI drive, and it created a suitable kernel/initrd pair
for me, that I could use with pxelinux.0 from syslinux.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Using iSCSI still doesn't remove the problem if
the server goes away.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">These arn't really the main discussion here
though.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Gareth</DIV></BODY></HTML>