[linuxdc-dev] Re: DC NFS root filesystem

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

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:15:09PM -0400, Andrew Molloy wrote:
> I mounted it from the server and I can write to it.  Also, since I'm not 
> very familiar with NFS, is no_root_squash appropriate for the 
> Dreamcast?  I assumed so from the man page but it wasn't a very good 
> explanation.

no_root_squash is required if the client should be able to read files
private to root on the host machine. Then mounting root over NFS, you have
to specify no_root_squash. 

The theory from #linuxdc is that the init script that's supposed to
remount / read-write is screwed up. I've not toyed around with the root
image you mentioned myself, so my only advice is to look closely at the
boot script(s) and find out where it's supposed to remount root, then see
to it that the script actually does that.
 
> I've tried to connect to IRC, but I'm firewalled and the proxies don't 
> allow it.

That's a shame. If you have a squid proxy between you and the outer world,
there's a little neat trick called tcp-over-squid which should work.


Karl T