[Sheflug] NFS the hard way

[James Wallbank <nospam [at] lowtech.org>]

Hi All,

How do I activate NFS the hard way - completely by hand?

Why??? Because I need to duplicate one of our servers, and if I boot 
it normally then everything goes pear-shaped, because when I mount it 
over NFS to copy the disk I can't copy loads of open files and active 
executables.

My solution? Boot the server (the machine to be duplicated) in single 
user mode so that the h/d has minimal activity. The problem then is 
that I need to get NFS up and running. I've used ifconfig to give the 
machine a meaningful IP address, netmask etc, and I've used route so 
that I can ping the target machine, which is sitting there with an 
empty hda1 ready to receive the data.

But, of course, when I try to mount my server's hda1 over nfs from 
the target machine, the whole process fails with an RPC port mapper 
failure.

Presumably this is because nfsd isn't running on the server (?)

When (on the server) I try...

rpc.nfsd

I get the message "Cannot register service: RPC unable to receive; 
errno = Connection refused."

What commands should I use to get nfs active on the server?

Cheers,

James
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