Well,
We having a working model, all that is except the external routing. I can ping the box but can’t ping out. Hopefully ifconfig will give you an idea, after further review it’s not “just fine”
When I manually changed BOOTPROTO to static on all occasions and rebooted It froze the boot at CUPS, NFS and such. I never did get it to route.
Just to check the card I reinstalled Slack 10.2 ( twice after realizing that GRUB was living in the MBR) I went right away to startx, opened Konquerer, tyoed in webmin.com and boom, webmin shows up. So the card isn’t fried.
I’ll give it one last gasp, trying to make sure that CUPS and NFS are not in it (who needs printing on a server??)
It was no go with the 4.2 server iso. Same problem. Thought I would try letting it install as a DHCP device but all that did was hang up the boot process.
I’m DLing the 3.7 server torrent and will give that a try. Otherwise it’s a bug and I’ll send in the motherboard and NIC info.
CUPS and NFS would only freeze (and not really freeze…they would timeout and eventually fail and the boot would continue after some period of time) if you don’t have any interfaces (i.e. not even loopback) or if they have been configured explicitly to use other non-loopback interfaces. I’m not sure how you’d end up in that situation. If they actually freeze the system then I’m pretty sure your hardware has some kind of pretty serious problem.
I think I’d still like to see the kernel log output. It seems like something serious is wrong on your box, and I don’t know that configuration is going to change that. dmesg might give you some clues about where things are going awry.
I have virtminPro up and running now and am fairly impressed, having been using Virtualmin for a few years now the extras deserve kudos.
As I’m tweaking I have to ask, do I want to try to upgrade to CentOS4? The most obvious thing I noticed on install of 3 was the user option to choose to run all traffic through eth0 ( had to actually select the device, though it was the only choice)
Still have no idea why CentOS 4 refused to route.
Not stop is throwing AWBS into the works. Anything I should know in advance?