It would be nice if this could be mentioned in the Diskless-HOWTO since I
did follow the instructions there and still encountered this problem.

Regards,
Ognen

> Ognen and I have been working at getting this going, and have succeeded 
> in figuring out what was wrong.  
> 
> For the record:  /export was a real directory on / (and not a mount point), 
> and thus the correct line for /etc/exports should have been:
> 
>   / -alldirs -maproot=root meaculpa.casa.ca
> 
> (not exactly obvious :-/ )