[linuxdc-dev] Re: DC NFS root filesystem

[Karl T. K. <ka...@pr...>]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:19:18PM -0400, Andrew Molloy wrote:
> I think you meant lin...@li...

Yes of course I did.


> Thanks, I have now semi-successfully gotten the DC to boot.  I used the 
> ip= setting and it mounted the NFS root filesystem.  Unfortunately, it 
> seems to be mounting read-only, so I get a lot of errors during the boot 
> process.  The root filesystem I am using is the Debian-based one from 
> ftp://m17n.org/pub/super-h/debian-unstable/superh/tar+gz/ .
> I examined the files in there, and the permissions seem normal, so I 
> think it's an NFS problem.

Try mounting the NFS share from another machine (or from the NFS server
itself, for that matter) to see if you actually can write to the
directories there (I'd assume you can, but doublecheck nevertheless).

Also, there might be faster, more interactive help on #linuxdc on
irc.openprojects.net

Karl T