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--- 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 __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.