Hi Nigel, I didn't have any errors when I tried the NFS install, and I'm not an NFS expert, so I'm not sure what is going wrong. You do have to have portmapper running on Linux before you can do the NFS install. You can issue a '/etc/rc.d/portmap start' command to get it going.
Regards, Doug Doug Bulbeck Technical Specialist Computing Services Celero Solutions 403.258.5979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 18, 2004 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but... Thanks for feedback and suggestions however I'm still no further forward. Here's the latest on your comments and suggestions. Rich: I was only running a 256M machine and the docs recommend 512 for a vnc installation. I raised the memory to 512, tried again but still got the same error. Marcy: I can't see any I/O errors on the console. Janek: I used DASDFMT to format the disks using cdl disk layout. I then used FDASD to partition the disk. Do I need to do anything else to put a filesystem on it? Doug: I've tried using NFS but the mount times out after a long wait with the following message: mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out When I've encountered this before it was because of some firewall type issue on the client side; the request was getting through to the server but the response wasn't getting back to the client. Did you have any such problems with an NFS install? Is there something I'm missing? Thanks again for the feedback so far, I really appreciate it. Nigel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
