In article <Pine.SGI.4.04.10001281124490.22125-100000@world.std.com>,
Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com> writes
>If you're running RedHat 6.0, 6.1 or some other distribution based on one
>of those RedHats... they've seriously mucked their NFS implementation. The
>mountd under Linux answers the initial request from from the bootloader to
>NFS mount the Linux filesystem using NFSv3.  The mountd is supposed to say
>"I don't know about NFSv3" but instead it says that it does know about it.  
>Then when the actual NFS mount happens, Linux fails miserable because it
>doesn't actually support NFSv3.
>
>The best solution at this point is to use a non-Linux NFS server. 

Whilst I hesitate to comment on what Brian has said as he wrote the
netbooting instructions...

With 6.0 (and, I assume, 6.1) if the nfs daemon is started 'no-nfs-
version 3' it works fine as this stops it lying about the version 3
support.
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Regards
Pete