Re: [Sheflug] NFS the hard way

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

Hi Barry (and everyone else!)

Yes, I was running in single user mode. Let me tell the story, and 
you'll see why:

If I simply boot the server, then I can mount it via NFS no problem. 
However, I'm trying to clone the whole install. Of course, the server 
boots into all sorts of active processes, and it's those active 
processes (which respawn, incidentally, so I can't kill them) that 
I'm interested in. As you'll realise, it's those active processes 
which are exactly the things I can't copy from the client (I get a 
"Permission Denied" message).

So, I have to boot in such a way that the hda1 is as passive as 
possible - for example via floppies, or in single user mode.

However, as you will realise, once I'm in single user mode, or when 
I've booted from floppies, rpc.nfsd isn't active, so I can't mount 
the machine over the network, so I can't copy the hard disk!

Argh!

Now I've got as far as being able to get eth0 active enough so that I 
can ping and be pinged, but I still can't make an NFS connection to 
do the copying.

Any suggestions? Anyone? How about a boot floppy which gets nfsd up and at 'em?

Thanks,

James
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>Are you running the server in single user mode - no network (init 1)?
>If so, I don't think you want to do that...
>
>Go to init 3 - multiuser with network.
>
>Is the network definitely up? Run ifconfig and see what interfaces it
>returns.
>
>James Wallbank writes:
>  > Hi Guennadi,
>  >
>  > Unfortunately, when I try 'rpc.mountd' I get the error message
>  > "Network is unreachable" i.e. The same error message that I get when
>  > I try 'rpc.nfsd' or 'nfs start'. I suspect that there's some
>  > precursor to mountd which I haven't activated, or my ifconfig-ing
>  > (detailed below) lacks some crucial parameter.
>  >
>  > Please keep the suggestions coming - I'm a desperate man!
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  > James
>  > =====
>
>
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