On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:25:41PM -0500, Dan Fulbright wrote: > >>When I try to mount an NFS filesystem, I get this error: > >> > >>mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfs' > >> > >>Here's the mount command I'm using on host2: > >> > >>mount host1.domain.com:/tmp /mnt > >> > >>On host1.domain.com, I have this in /etc/exports: > >> > >>/tmp host2.domain.com(ro,sync) > > > >Do a `grep nfs /proc/filesystems' and see what you get back. This will > >let you know if currently there is nfs support. > > > >If nothing, try `modprobe nfs' and give it another shot. If that doesn't > >work, make sure that NFS client support was actually included with your > >kernel build. > > Here's what I get: > > rh2:~# grep nfs /proc/filesystems > rh2:~# modprobe nfs > modprobe: Can't locate module nfs > > >Is your kernel custom, debian built, etc? > > AFAIK, it's a stock Debian kernel (I didn't do the actual install): > > host2:~# uname -a > Linux host2.domain.com 2.4.26-bf2.4 #1 SMP Wed May 26 08:34:11 PDT 2004 > i686 GNU/Linux > > This machine didn't exist in May 2004, so the kernel certainly wasn't > built on this machine. Sorry, but I'm not familiar enough with Debian > (yet) to find out what kernel package I have installed. >
Have you actually checked that you have NFS support? What does grep NFS /boot/config* give you? -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]