I am using vanilla bootdisks, with rescue.bin and root.bin from 01-apr-2002 03:17. I am trying to mount root over NFS.
I have one diskless 486 with a floppydrive. I am booting the rescue.bin and loading root.bin, with no parameters. First of all, modProbe gives me "modprobe: Can't open depencies file /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep (no such file or directory)". I can set up my keyboard alright. I can also pre-load my 3c509.o from /boot on a floppy, and my card is detected, I can also ping the machine. Now the installation program say: "No hard disk drives could be found and the network is configured. Please select "Next" to mount the root filesystem via NFS. Select "Alternate" instead if you need to load essential modules from floppy to make the hard disk drives visible." I choose Next, and a dialog flashes up, but immediately disappears. I can barely see what it says: "The installation program is determining the current state of your system and the next installation step that should be performed". It immediately disappears, and the message from modprobe is repeated, and I am thrown back to the same prompt again. I have tried to manually mount the nfs-share to /target, but that gives me "Mounting 10.69.25.2:/home/sandos/leo on /target failed: No such device". The logs on the server says that "May 6 17:01:30 slask rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from leo:904 for /home/sandos/leo (/home/sandos/leo)". Should this not be working? Am I doing something terribly wrong? --- John B�ckstrand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
