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

[Neil Stone <neil_stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 
> 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.
> 
No.. better still.. me being a numpty... portmap was not staying
resident.. got over that by (yeah this looks nasty)

 /sbin/portmap -d &
 ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

as i also hadn't loaded lo as a network interface... ! (oops)

looks like i am almost there.. i'll keep you all posted...

Neil

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