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<TITLE>Preparing NFS</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node142.html"><IMG WIDTH=37 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="next" SRC="next_motif.gif"></A> <A HREF="node140.html"><IMG WIDTH=26 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="up" SRC="up_motif.gif"></A> <A HREF="node140.html"><IMG WIDTH=63 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="previous" SRC="previous_motif.gif"></A> <A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node142.html">Mounting an NFS Volume</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node140.html">The Network File System</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node140.html">The Network File System</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0013100000">Preparing NFS</A></H1>
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<A NAME="nfsnfsd"></A>
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Before you can use NFS, be it as server or client, you must make sure
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your kernel has NFS support compiled in. Newer kernels have a simple
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interface on the proc filesystem for this, the /proc/filesystems
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file, which you can display using cat:
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<PRE>
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$ cat /proc/filesystems
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minix
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ext2
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msdos
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nodev proc
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nodev nfs
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</PRE>
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If nfs is missing from this list, then you have to compile
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your own kernel with NFS enabled. Configuring the kernel network
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options is explained in section ``Kernel Configuration'' in
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chapter-<A HREF="node41.html#hardware"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="cross_ref_motif.gif"></A>.
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<P>
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For older kernels prior to -1.1, the easiest way to find out
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whether your kernel has NFS support enabled is to actually try to
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mount an NFS file system. For this, you could create a directory below
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/tmp, and try to mount a local directory on it:
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<PRE>
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# mkdir /tmp/test
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# mount localhost:/etc /tmp/test
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</PRE>
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If this mount attempt fails with an error message saying ``fs
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type nfs no supported by kernel'', you must make a new kernel with
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NFS enabled. Any other error messages are completely harmless, as
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you haven't configured the NFS daemons on your host yet.
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<P>
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<BR> <HR>
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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