Re: bootp on one system, NFS on another...

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>	I would like to have my NFS server and my BOOTP server be different
>machines.  I've been playing around with the 'rp' entry in the bootptab
>trying to specify a server name along with the directory but no luck so far.
>I can get the linux system to come up, but get an 'error -13' when trying to
>mount the root FS.  The client _is_ getting the 'rp' parameter however,
>because when it boots it says that it can't mount
>"172.16.33.200:/client_root/client-50".  Can this be done?

The NFS server is refusing to serve the client. Check its error logs
for clues. Did you allow the client in /etc/hosts.allow?
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