On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Martin Stromberg wrote: > Perhaps the server only can export the directories in the export file; > try mounting with "mount -t nfs 141.48.54.2:/usr/local/linux /mnt". > I really don't know a lot about nfs mounting, but trying won't hurt. I forgot to mention that I also tried this. I also tried to mount another Linux box which worked everey time before but failed in the circumstances I described. > If you have another linux box running you could make a statically (or try > with the dynamically) linked ping and copy it to a floppy and then mount > that floppy on /dev/fd0 on the box you are trying to get connected. I will try that.
> But I do wonder if you have nfs compiled into the kernel or as module > or not at all? Yes, Susan G. Kleinmann compiled it into the kernel. The error message is completely different if you havn't NFS or NFS has to be loaded as module but can't be found. > Hopefully helpful, Hope that ping gives further hints (I will report tomorrow). Hopefully there are other ideas. Andreas.
