nfs mount at boot

[Zach]

It really shouldn't be that complicated.  Putting the nfs mount in the
fstab is supposed to be *the* way of having it mounted at boot.  Works
fine on my FC3 machine at work.  I'm trying to get this working so I
eventually have nfs home directories.  I'm sure others have had
success at this.

On 9/18/05, Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 20:08 -0400, Zach wrote:
> > I'm trying to configure my machine to mount an nfs share at boot.  It
> > mounts manually just fine.
> >
> > I have the following entry in /etc/fstab:
> > server01:/home  /media/nfshome    nfs   rw,hard,intr            0    0
> > When I boot, it isn't mounted.  After the system is running, if I do a
> > sudo mount -a, it get mounted with no problem.  What am I missing?  Is
> > there something special about the /media directory that affects this?
> > I wouldn't think so.
> 
> I wonder if perhaps not all of the required systems are on line yet when
> it attempts to mount that?  Is the network up?  Is portmap running? etc.
> 
> You might consider installing 'autofs' and setting up so that the server
> is automounted when it is accessed.  autofs also works well for mounting
> ISO images.
> 
> --
> Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>
> 
> 


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