Dan Cornilescu wrote:

> Aaron Walker wrote:
>
> > and underneath the dialog box it says:
> > "mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
>
> Checking the server.
> On my system (RH51), similar problem:
> $/usr/sbin/showmount -e localhost
> mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered
> Which may (or may not) be caused by not exporting any filesystem.
>
> On a RH50 which does export nfs properly, this command works OK,
> showing the exported filesystems.
> You need to work on your nfs server. Try running the server from
> control-panel, or linuxconf. Try rebooting, with nfs (server)
> enabled in your default initstate.
> Or,
> Try install via FTP, I *think* it doesn't need RPC.
> You may need to set up the ftp service on the server. Again you
> can check if it works ftp-ing the localhost.

I also tried FTPing through PLIP.  I setup my cd-rom to mount in
/home/ftp/cdromthen made sure I could see it anonymously and it still didn't
work.  It just said it couldn't connect to the ftp server.

Aaron

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