>Number:         3998
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Trying to mount a filesystem you don't have is cryptic.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 17 12:05:00 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Seebach
>Organization:
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>Release:        -currentish
>Environment:
System: NetBSD taniemarie 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (SEEBS) #0: Sun Jun 15 01:05:10 CDT 1997 seebs@taniemarie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/SEEBS amiga


>Description:
	If you try to mount an NFS filesystem without "file-system NFS",
	you get "Operation not supported by device", which is not very
	clear to me.  I would rather see something like "Filesystem not
	supported by kernel".
>How-To-Repeat:
	build without NFS, try to nfs-mount.
>Fix:
	?
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: