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From: hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de (Hendrik Roepcke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NFS-INSTALL BUG?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 08:15:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Kiel, Germany
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:

>Hendrik Roepcke (hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de) wrote:
>: Hello,

>: today I FTPed the FreeBSD 2.0 Realease from STuttgart and tried
>: to install it via NFS, but I got a problem:
>: Altough I can mount the hard-disk-drive by hand with the mount
>: command. I cannot install via NFS from the script.
>: I gave 777 rites to the NFS-partition all root-rites, but the
>: bindist-install script crashed with a "cannot mount" due to
>: "permission denied"...
>: I think there are some problems in the mnt binaries our in the
>: install-script...
>: Who can help?

Thanx for the hints, Brian, we tried, but no help!

But I got the solution:

We tried to do this in a LAN without (!) DNS. This was the reason
he could not mount it correctly....


Hendrik

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