On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 11:28:08AM +1000, Db wrote:
> [...]
> 
>    In the event here, I was attempting NFS install of the 1.4.1 snap.
> After meandering through the automated questionaire and getting to the
> stage of NFS mounting the dir containing the install sets, the supplied
> miniroot image gets into trouble. It seems to get the NFS dir mount
> business over and done with fine, but in looking for the sets, issues a ls
> of the NFS mountpoint (/mnt2), which returns;
> 
> ls: Protocol is not supported
> 
>   I have no idea where this is coming from, but I can only surmize it's
> somewhere in the miniroot because after changing tack and installing the
> system using ftp (which works like a dream I might add), NFS mounting the
> same (or any) dir from the linux box and doing a ls of the mountpoint
> works fine with the *installed* system...<shrug>...

I think it's a problem on the linux side: its mountd/nfsd claims to support
NFS v3 (so the client mount it as NFS v3) but after barfs on v3 requests.

mounting with '-o -2' should solve the problem.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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