On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Chris Schumann wrote:

> I'm trying a Slackware install over a network. I get NFS apparently working,
> but once it actually starts to install that first package (aaa_base?) it
> hangs. Then it says it's waiting for the NFS server. (That server is a
> 900MHz Athlon running Fedora Core 3 and NFS.)

The NFS install should work - this sounds like something may not be setup 
properly on the NFS server.  What's the OS on the server?  Are you seeing 
anything in your logs from nfs, mountd, portmap?  How about doing a 
tcpdump on the server and seeing how far the NFS negotiation is getting? 
(yes, tcpdump is my solution to everything)  It might be something simple, 
like the server is forcing NFSv3 or TCP, and slack doesn't support it.

> Slackware bare+root only has wget and NFS. No ftp, no smb, so doing any kind
> of recursive copy is out... and NFS doesn't seem to work too well.

Have you thought about doing a floppy install?  You're not REALLY a 
slackware user until you've downloaded the disks over a modem connection 
and done a full install with floppy :)