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 -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It takes more hot water to make cold water hot than cold water to make hot water cold." Jon Blummer ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
