On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, John C Cusick wrote about, RedHat-6.1 nfs Question:
> To All,
>
> ** I'm trying to install redhat 6.1 on on an older '486
> ** without a cdrom. I've done this many times before
> ** with earlier versions of redhat up to 5.2 w/no probs.
> **
> ** I'm using the bootnet.img and the install fails with
> ** "unable to mount filesystem" message when I try
> ** to mount the nfs volume /mnt/cdrom on the nfs host.
I belive i explained this a few days ago.
its NOT /mnt/cdrom its /mnt/cdrom/slakware
lsakware is where the distro is found.
> ** Anyone else here experience this. I hate to buy a cdrom
> ** drive because even though they're cheap, this is a box
> ** at work and they are supposed to be paying me, not the
> ** other way around :-)
>
> ** Thanks
>
> ** JC
>
> Upon further investigation in /var/log/messages I get the
> following:
>
> Jan 13 17:27:06 laptop mountd[792]: authenticated mount request from
> otherhost.othernet:610 for /mnt/cdrom (/)
> Jan 13 17:27:06 laptop mountd[792]: getfh failed: Operation not
> permitted
>
> Should I assume getfh is get file handle? And if so, why fail?
>
> I've checked hosts.allow, hosts.deny, exports, and all appears up
> to snuff and is set up like I always have in the past. I double-checked
> the man pages anyway and everything looks kosher to me.
>
> Does the above log message give anyone a clue?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> JC
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