On Thursday 26 April 2001 16:23, you wrote: > Pete- > > I noticed your posting ont he tomsrtbt mailing list- I have been trying > to get NFS to work, but I have had no luck. Did you ever get an image > working with NFS? Any information would be wonderful- we are building a > 100-machine beowulf cluster, and I would like to use tomsrtbt as a fast > means of suplicating the cluster os... > > Thanks! > > -Mark Yes, I've just cracked the last problem today, and now have the nfs server working fine. First I downloaded the three rpc files from toms.net (rpc.portmap, rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd), and then I unpacked the raw disk image, as described in the faq. These rpc files need to be copied into 2/usr/bin of the unpacked distro. To make room you have to delete something you won't need, and that is non-essential. I dumped ce/emacs and debugfs. Then I copied the three rpc files into 2/usr/bin. To make for a quicker boot to nfs server, I added a simple exports file into 2/etc/ and then modified the rc.custom.gz file to contain the necessary startup commands (ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up , route add -net xxx.xxx.0.0 netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx eth0 , /usr/bin/rpc.portmap , /usr/bin/rpc.nfsd , /usr/bin/rpc.mountd ) These all need to go towards the end of rc.custom, after all the other network stuff. Oh, I also added a couple of lines after the cat hosts line to include the laptop I would be using to link to the tomsrtbt machine. After that, its just a case of buildit.s as described in the faq! Now all I have to do is throw in the disk, reboot and I can immediately connect my laptop to the tomsrtbt machine for file transfers etc. The problem I was having was that I hadn't realized that many of the files in /usr/bin are hard-linked, and you have to delete ALL of them to gain any space. I couldn't understand why deleting ce on its own didn't create any extra space. Doh! <G> -- Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
