Re: dselect nfs question
Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> This question is overly vague; sorry ...
>
> I started playing with nfs today (nothing like a little excitement on a
> friday). I've got a 9 gig partition on a BSDI box, which holds my ftp
> mirror of debian, among other things. I want to be able to do local
> installs via nfs. So I fought my way through BSDI nfs config, and I can
> now mount the filesystem on most any server I choose. So far, so good.
>
> However, when I choose the 'nfs' method from dselect, it says my BSDI
> box isn't an nfs server. I think this has something to do with RPC. My
> guess is that Linux and BSDI are using different versions of RPC.
Nope.. that shouldn't metter.. nfs is nfs.
> I'm sure if I read the right fm I can figure this out, but I'm a bit
> lost here - I've never delved into nfs or RPC at all :/ Any pointers as
> to which fm's to r?
Just curious, if this is a virgin install, did you choose to install
the nfs module? You need nfs support into kernel to be able to nfs
mount anything. If this is a working installation, try running
"showmount -e your.nfs.server.com" and see what it says.
Tim
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