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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Cannot NFS mount 386bsd partition from PC!
Message-ID: <1993May9.140605.67518@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 9 May 93 14:06:05 MDT
References: <1993May4.004524.642@pony.Ingres.COM> <1shphc$djt@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <1shphc$djt@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, lunde@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Grupe) writes:
>>Has anyone used a mount from a PC to get to the 386bsd partitions?  I am
>>using OS/2 and cannot mount 386bsd partitions from there.  I can mount
>>the OS/2 partitions on 386bsd.
> I have tried to mount 386BSD partitions using SUN PC NFS 3.5 without success.
> So I would also like to hear about a solution.

I haven't tried mount 386BSD parititions from elsewhere (kind of pointless
given that I've only got a 40MB hard disk), but I've been having other
problems with NFS (actually, using NetBSD):

- I cannot mount a DEC Ultrix box. The connection runs for awhile and then
  hangs.
- I cannot mount a DEC Alpha OSF/1 box. Same as above.

I have been able to mount a VAX/VMS box running Multinet, but I have 
difficulties building a new kernel. All of the sources live over on the
VMS box; when I build a new kernel, I will occasionally get bogus syntax
errors from the compiler. I have a friend running on a bigger machine that
has no difficulty building kernels locally, so I think it might be some sort
of NFS problem.

My friend has not been able to NFS mount anything. He can't even talk to the
VAX that I'm talking to. I have a WD8003 and he's got an NE2000 clone; with the
trouble that had getting the NE2000 to run at all, his NFS problems may be
something to do with the NE2000.

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu