Subject: Re: Installproblems NetBSD on HP345
To: Dirk Groesser <digro@wurzel.lahn.de>
From: Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 02/26/1997 15:21:20
> Hallo,
>
> i'm trying to install NetBSD v1.2 on a HP 345 Worstation via NFS over a
> HP98643 LAN card..
> I have created a bootfloppy with rawwrite. So the machine boots the
> Installprogram. I choose the boot-option from the menue. I answerd the
> following stuff to the questions:
> Disk to boot from: le0
> My IP adress: 192.168.1.10
> My NetMask: 255.255.255.0
> My Gateway: i leave blank
> Server IP adress: 192.168.1.1
> Server Path: i tryed: "/" "/e" "/e:\" "e:\" and so on
>
> The answer is: no such file or directory
> or
> Error 1
>
> The NFS Server is an OS/2 Warp 4 machine with the TCP/IP 2.0 package. When
> i use the iptrace command on the server, i see that they are talking.
> The exports-file from the nfd server is the following:
> #DIRECTORY CLIENTS COMMENT
> e:\ hp345 # via hosts
> e:\ 192.168.1.10 # via ip
>
> The file MINIROOT is on the drive e: in the root (e:\) on the server.
>
> Mounting the e-drive local on the OS/2 machine (mount z: me:e:\) is no
> problem. So what is my mistake to install the package?
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> digro@wurzel.lahn.de
> digro@t-online.de
I am not so sure the OS/2 stuff will do what you want, but this is how I
got any of the OS/2 stuff to mount on other UN*X systems.
mount -t nfs "b61990:g:\\exported" /mnt
I would then extrapolate from this that you need to use "e:\\" without the
quotes. Good luck.
Wes
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