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wufo · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 28

I want to use puppy as a media player on my wide screen TV upstairs. Am using an older 1.3GHz 256MB system using a usb network adapter. I got the ntework up just fine, but I cannot get the nfs client working to access system where the movies are.

I read a couple of discussions about mount-FULL and it failed because of no nfs module. So I execute
modprobe nfs
But, it fails with unknown symbols. Like:
rpc_unlink
xdr_encode_string
svc_print_addr

plus others.

What do I need to do?

wufo

DC · Posted: Thu 31 Dec 2009, 17:41 Post subject:

Hi wufo,

Here's a client howto I wrote for myself to remind me when doing a new install.
I think 4.21 was kernal 2.6.25.16.
obviously change things to suit

# make a dir on client
/mnt/dc_server

# install
NFS-modules-k2.6.25.16.pet
nfs_common.tar.gz

# edit
/etc/host.allow
# adding (dont forget comma spaced and a carriage return)
ALL: 192.60.26.9 , 192.60.26.10

# add these to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
modprobe nfs
/etc/rc.d/rc.portmap start

# to check if nfs is running
rpcinfo -p localhost

# script in
/root/startup/DCmount_nfs.sh
## poll interface eth0
while [ -z "`ifconfig | grep 'eth0'`" ]
do
sleep 3
done

mount-FULL -t nfs 192.60.26.10:/root /mnt/dc_server

hope it all makes sense have fun

DC

npierce · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 637

EDITED.

Whoops, I did not read carefully enough. Now I see that you are having trouble getting the nfs module to load, so it was rather silly of me to ask if it was loaded, as I did when I first posted this.

Meanwhile I see that DC has given you a good answer.

Sorry for the noise. And good luck.

wufo · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 28

Thanks Dc, that got me going.
Now I can hook this system to my wide screen TV in the den and watch avi's or whatever.

wufo

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

Hey DC ..would you mind adding that 'how to' to mine...sometimes another viewpoint makes things clearer

mike

DC · Posted: Fri 01 Jan 2010, 07:17 Post subject:

Hi Mike,
Did you mean this one?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45090

DC

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

Oops sorry ...should have popped up the link...
yes If you don't mind since you have written it from a users point of view.

regards and happy new year
mike