Re: NFS client in 'rescue shell' from install DVD?

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Ron Leach (ronleach@tesco.net):
> List, good morning,
> 
> I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem
> but have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I
> thought worth having as a separate short topic.
> 
> It's a wheezy system, running under the rescue shell provided by the
> install DVD.  I wanted to copy some config files from the wheezy
> machine onto an archive area on an nfs system.  If I try to mount an
> nfs export from another machine, onto a mount point in the
> filesystem seen by the 'rescue shell' from the install DVD, the
> mount command fails, reporting
> 
> # mount 192.168.0.200:/srv /mnt/nfs/srv
> mount.nfs no such device
> 
> Some notes:
> 
> There is an entry in fstab for this mount, so there was no need to
> provide all the parameters.
> 
> 192.168.0.200:/srv is being exported, and is seen by other machines.
> 
> /mnt/nfs/srv exists in the rescue shell filesystem, and can be 'cd''d to.
> 
> Does the error message mean that there is no nfs client available in
> the rescue shell?
> 
> Is there any way round this?  There is an nfs client, somewhere in
> the filesystem that the rescue shell can see, for example, if there
> was a method to invoke it.

I've not used an installation DVD, only a CD. There one has to
load Installation Components just before the Configure Network step.
For example, I have added cfdisk and network-console from this list.
Is it possible NFS is in there somewhere? (I can't check.)

Cheers,
David.