Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'

[Dan Fulbright <dan+debian-user-list@dan.tulsa.ok.us>]

> > > > When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error:
> > > >
> > > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs'
> > >
> > > Something must not be loaded.  What do you get by running "rpcinfo -p"?
> >
> > On host2 (the client), I get:
> >     program vers proto   port
> >      100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
> >      100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
> >      100024    1   udp    704  status
> >      100024    1   tcp    707  status
>
> Lack of mountd here is suspicious, because its mount that's not
> recognizing nfs (apparently, not that I'm any nfs expert.)  You
> can try to manually start its init script in /etc/init.d/.   (I've
> got one file there called mountnfs.sh, which may be the one you need.)

I ran /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh, but it didn't do any good. It looks like 
it just mounts any NFS filesystems that are listed in /etc/fstab. Mine 
aren't there; I'm just using mount on the command line.

--df