Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: help me with this error message please]

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

You've left out a lot of detail needed for a full answer (what floppy, for
example - I don't think standard RH ships an xterminal floppy), bt let me at
least answer your specific questions.

1. Yes, the xterminal should look for "the existing DHCP server" ...
assuming it uses DHCP. The error message you quote refers to BOOTP and RARP
... older protocols that your DHCP server may not be supporting (or if it
does, it may not have an entry for this xterminal - both bootp and rarp
require a specific entry for the MAC address of each supported device).

2. The later messages report an inability of the xterminal to mount via NFS
some directory. Since I don't know which xterminal setup you are using, I
can only guess that this is a remote-mounted root directory for the
xterminal. RPC is the portmapper daemon, used for NFS mounts.

To give more specific help, we need more specific information about what you
are attempting.

At 11:10 AM 10/10/00 -0400, Doug Loss wrote:
>owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:08:37 -0500
>> Subject: help me with this error message please
>> From: "Marilyn and Steve" <hagle1@airmail.net>
>> To: seul-edu@seul.org
>>
>> When I try to boot my test xterminal with a floppy, this is the message I
>> see . . .
>>
>> "Sending BOOTP and RARP requests . . . .  .  . . timed out
>> IP Config:  Auto-configuration of network failed
>> Partition check:
>>   hda:hda1 hda2 <hda5> hda3
>> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 200.200.165.18
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>> Portmap:  Server 200.200.165.18 not responding . . timed out
>> Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
>> Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 200.200.165.18
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>>     RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
>> Mount: server 200.200.165.18 not responding, timed out
>> Root-NFS Server returned error -5 while mounting /xterminals   . . . . . "
>>
>> What does it mean?  I'm using RedHat 6.2, and followed the RedHat 6x
>> instructions.  I am on a large IP network.  My test computers = I can ping
>> one from the other with no problem.  I did not configure my server as a DHCP
>> server, because the larger network has one.  Shouldn't the xterminal look
>> for the existing DHCP server?
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>>
>> M. Hagle
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