On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Maxime Kurkdjian wrote:

> i'm trying to install the last snapshot on my mvme167
> installation over network (tftp, rarp, bootparam, nfs)
> when i try to mount my nfs to dump miniroot on the disk i got the
> following error.

> > ssh: mount -r 192.168.1.1:/tftproot/root_netbsd /mnt
> > mount_nfs: can't get net id for host/nfs: servname not supported for
> ai_socktype
> > ssh:

> what does that mean ?

It means you need to upgrade your /etc directory. There are a number of
changes between 1.4.x and 1.5 which require /etc to be upgraded.

To get you out of your predicament, grab /etc/netconfig and /etc/services.

Cheers, Steve