Re: pcmcia and nfs

[Stephen Hardman <hardguy@it.net.au>]

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> > [posted this also do debian-user, no crosspost]
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm running unstable on my Toshiba Satellite with pcmcia support,
> > works very good. I'm now trying to move to nfs mounted homedirs
> > from my server. Mounting works without problem, but at boot up
> > mountnfs.sh from /etc/init.d/ always gets executed before the
> > pcmcia network is up. Manually adding a link in my runlevel
> > directory /etc/rc2.d/ after pcmcia is called works.
> > 
> > But I was not able to figure out _where_ mountnfs.sh gets
> > executed before pcmcia support. I tried 
> > find /etc -type f|xargs grep mountnfs
> > but no file except /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh showed the mountnfs
> > string. I'm a little confused about this.
> > 
> 
> That's because you're using "-type f".  The symlink in the rc2.d
> directory isn't a "f" (file). :)
> 
> Use :
> 
>   find /etc -name "*nfs*" (optionally -type l since we know it's
>                            a symlink)
> 
> It's probably rc2.d/K25nfs-server that you're looking for, but
> use update-rc.d to make changes.
> 

But yes, use the pcmcia start/stop options to mount and unmount
nfs volumes as already mentioned on the list rather than fiddling
here, sorry to add to any confusion.

Regards,
Steve