On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:14:42PM -0500, Causey, James F. wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 from a locally constructed Sun workstation > repository that's sharing the directory through NFS. I cannot get the > Debian system to understand the construct system.domain:/hldirectory/debian > as the NFS station. If I telnet in and try to mount the share, I get a > "failed: Invalid argument" message. I can mount the same share on a RedHat > 7.2 system with no problems. I've successfully loaded the system from the > www.degian.org <http://www.degian.org> distro, but would like to use this > local one, if possible. > > One thing I can think of is that the Debian system isn't in the DNS as yet. > I've added the IP address and the system name to the /etc/hosts file, but > wonder if that has any effect in this instance. The RedHat system IS in the > DNS table.
Did you tell the installer to load the nfs filesystem support module in the kernel/driver config step? If not, the installer won't be able to mount type nfs. I hope that is the problem and helps. Lennart Sorensen
