Re: [Sheflug] NFS the hard way

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

How about using TomsRTBT? You can get a network up with it. I don't know
about nfs tho'. Anyway, there must be a tiny distro around with that
functionality. That way, you've not booted the HDD, and nothing is in use
on the HDD, so copy away. I have used this many times for local (disk to
disk) cloning, even for M$ stuff.

www.toms.net for tomsrtbt

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, James Wallbank wrote:

> 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
> =====
> 
> 
> >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
> >  > =====
> >
> >
> >--
> >Barrie J. Bremner
> >
> >email: baz at barriebremner.com | OpenPGP ID: 5164F553
> >
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