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Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.help Oliver Hookins <ohook000@nospam.student.mq.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>>Hi there,
> 
> 
>>I'm having some slight problems with a diskless install. Here are the
>>basics:
> 
> 
>>Client - Sun Sparcstation 5 remote booting from TFTP (TFTPBOOT.IMG file
>>from the Debian 3.0 CDs).
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> 
>>Server - Redhat 7.3 box running RARPD, TFTPD, NFSD etc.
> 
> 
>>The sparcstation gets the installation image from TFTP, and mounts the
>>debian-sparc-root over NFS okay. In the installation tips it mentions
>>that you have to enable NFS locking so that packages can be properly
>>installed. There are a few steps that are followed, ending in starting
>>portmap and rpc.statd.
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> 
>>Portmap appears to start ok, but starting rpc.statd looks like it fails
>>with the following error:
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>>rpc.statd[166]: Version 1.0 Starting
>>rpc.statd[167]: unable to register (statd, 1, udp).
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> 
> Then portmap is not running. Check with rpcinfo -p localhost.
> 
> Or you've locked yourself out via hosts.deny. Check that.

Portmap is running on both the server and on the client.

    program vers proto   port
     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
     100024    1   udp   1024  status
     100024    1   tcp   1024  status
     100011    1   udp    624  rquotad
     100011    2   udp    624  rquotad
     100011    1   tcp    627  rquotad
     100011    2   tcp    627  rquotad
     100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
     100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
     100021    1   udp   1051  nlockmgr
     100021    3   udp   1051  nlockmgr
     100021    4   udp   1051  nlockmgr
     100005    1   udp   1052  mountd
     100005    1   tcp   4113  mountd
     100005    2   udp   1052  mountd
     100005    2   tcp   4113  mountd
     100005    3   udp   1052  mountd
     100005    3   tcp   4113  mountd

Hosts.deny is empty on the server, and I've added ALL: ALL to the 
hosts.allow file (although I believe some of the man pages say it isn't 
necessary).

Oliver.