Re: nfs installations

["Mark Wilson and Sharon Farr" <markandsharon csi com>]

Nabeel

See below...

BTW it is probably better to email the install list rather than me so other
people with better skills can also reply. I know about RH6.0 but no other
versions. I assume that 6.1 is similar to 6.0 but have NO idea what happened
in the 5.x versions...


> So the linux box acting as the nfs server has the RH 5.2 Intel CD in it
> and I mount it it with mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. It
> mounts nicely. 777 permissions don't work on it because it's a read only
> device; is 655 sufficient? I think the actual permissions are 755.

Ok. I meant that  you need read permissions. 004 would probably be
sufficient! 755 is fine.


> Then on the machine to which I want linux installed I insert the boot
> disk and select nfs installation method. I then setup the NIC, an ISA NE
> compatible; there is no indication that the parameters I specified are
> correct (io=0x300 irq = 11) I assume they are correct. I used them for
> an aborted Debian installation of the same machine. The Debian setup
> program announced them to be the correct settings.

Errr, Umm, Ok I forgot something. I was going to send a follow up post but
never got around to it... Do the following:

Add "/mnt/cdrom" to the file /etc/exports
run the commant "exportfs -av" as root. It should at least say "exporting
:/mnt/cdrom"

I don't know anything about your NIC but if Debian liked it I'm not going to
argue! Are there any default options?

> I setup the network info on the linux-machine-to-be, and the nfs install
> window comes up, but when I type the ip address of the nfs server, and
> the directory /mnt/cdrom I get this error:
>
> mount failed: invalid argument (this was a buttonized window) then
> underneath it were the words:
> mount clutudp_create: RPC: program not registered

The error is probably to do with my omission above. It tells NFS what it is
allowed to export to the outside world. Other things to check are:
   /mnt/cdrom permissions AFTER you have mounted the cdrom
  that nfs is running. Type "/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs status". If it doesn't say
helpful things this may be the problem.

> When I hit the OK button the next buttonized window that popped up read:
>
> I could not mount that directory from server.
>
>
> Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Right now I am attempting an FTP
> install using the directions frm the redhat installation.

Good luck. Let me know how the FTP thing went. The docs are usually very
good.

Cheers

Mark