[plug] Debian 2.20 and kernel mode NFS

[Chris Caston]

I dunno if this will help you but I use ext3 and yet only have the first
3 CD's.

I basically booted off the first CD and used "bf24" as the boot option.

regards,

Chris

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 22:31, Alan Graham wrote:
> 
> A few days ago, after successfully (eventually) converting my firewall
> to debian, I decided to convert my file server to Debian.  For some
> reason, my file server wouldn't boot from cd 5 (containing the
> 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel), but would boot from cd 1 which contains kernel 
> 2.2.20-idepci.  I've tonight decided to get NFS working (Samba works
> fine, which keeps my wife happy) so that I can get the home directories
> shared out and access everything from my laptop again.  Problem, my
> laptop kept reporting 'permission denied'.  The meesages log on the
> server contains the following.
>   rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Function not implemented
> 
> Googling for this didn't give much, but it did give a link to a couple
> of messages on a debian forum which suggested that I needed to enable
> kernel mode NFS.  I have installed the kernel mode NFS package, so I'm
> assuming that enabling KNFS means recompiling the kernel.
> 
> Am I on the right track here?  Could this be because I used the 2.2.20
> kernel?  If so, is there an easy way to swap to the 2.4.18 kernel?
> 
> Can anyone point me to a good guide to compiling a kernel the "Debian
> Way"?  I remember finding one and think "must keep that", and promptly
> losing all reference to it.  
> 
> Oh, and if there's a nice tool to do anything, please tell me about it. 
> The pleasures of editing config files by hand paled years ago.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Alan
> 
>