Re: [LUG] NFS/portmapper....

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Neil Stone wrote:

> I have run portmap (from /sbin) and trying to run the following
> command;
> 
>   mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/target /newroot
> 
> I am getting the following error.
> 
>   RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this ? once I have mounted
> the partition i only really need to run chroot and bob's my uncle (i
> think/hope)

Are you running the netfs/nfsfs/mountd/whatever else J random distro calls 
it?  You'll need that to regisister itself with the rpc daemon before you 
can mount an nfs filesystem.

Alex.


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