Excellent, glad that was resolved for you. Just out of curiosity, why Gentoo for a liveCD versus, say Knoppix or some other distro more geared for LiveCD usage?
Sincerely, Steve On 9/19/07, Stephen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/18/07, Stephen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience running an NFS server from a live cd? > > I've been playing around with it and I've run into a strange issue > > that I would like to resolve. > > Guess what! I resolved it. :) > > > I've found that if I mount a file system from a local hard drive, I > > can successfully NFS-mount that export. However, if I try to export > > anything from the tmpfs that the live cd is running in, any and all > > attempts to mount that export fail. The command line says "reason > > given by server: Permission denied", but my system log says > > "authenticated mount request from livecd:803 for ...". > > I Googled for "nfs squashfs" and found (on the squashfs homepage) that > support for exporting via NFS was added in version 3.2. I happened to > be using version 3.1 (3.2 is masked in Gentoo). I forced an upgrade > to 3.2, and voilà! > > Thanks for listening... > > Stephen > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
