On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:58:44PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:43:22PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm trying to install debian on a small box using PLIP. The HOWTO was > > treating me fine until I encountered the following... > > > > aurelius:~# rpcinfo -p > > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - > > Connection refused > > > > Any ideas? > > Is portmap running? The package that contains it seems to vary by > Debian distribution (maybe "netbase" or "portmap"). Note: I highly > recommend firewalling sunrpc (port 111) if you run it. >
Indeed it wasn't. Neither did I have some nfs utilities installed. Cheers Tiarnan
