Quoting Ron Leach (ronle...@tesco.net): > List, good morning, > > I started and continuing with a separate thread about a boot problem > but have a specific query about the rescue shell and NFS, which I > thought worth having as a separate short topic. > > It's a wheezy system, running under the rescue shell provided by the > install DVD. I wanted to copy some config files from the wheezy > machine onto an archive area on an nfs system. If I try to mount an > nfs export from another machine, onto a mount point in the > filesystem seen by the 'rescue shell' from the install DVD, the > mount command fails, reporting > > # mount 192.168.0.200:/srv /mnt/nfs/srv > mount.nfs no such device > > Some notes: > > There is an entry in fstab for this mount, so there was no need to > provide all the parameters. > > 192.168.0.200:/srv is being exported, and is seen by other machines. > > /mnt/nfs/srv exists in the rescue shell filesystem, and can be 'cd''d to. > > Does the error message mean that there is no nfs client available in > the rescue shell? > > Is there any way round this? There is an nfs client, somewhere in > the filesystem that the rescue shell can see, for example, if there > was a method to invoke it.
I've not used an installation DVD, only a CD. There one has to load Installation Components just before the Configure Network step. For example, I have added cfdisk and network-console from this list. Is it possible NFS is in there somewhere? (I can't check.) Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150313214116.ga9...@alum.home
