On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:22:22AM -0000, Andrew Nix wrote:
Mark Evans said:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:45:38PM -0000, Andrew Nix wrote:
The usual approach is to mount all non network filesystems at the start of the boot process. With mounting of network filesystems being done later. i.e. after configuration of the network.
I have had a look through the suse manual but it doest list many examples of options that can be used in fstab. All of them seem quite irrelavent for what I need to do. But also had a search on the net but couldnt Find anything of any help.
IIRC SuSE performs the latter by running a script called "nfs", check this is actually being run.
Sorry to sound stupid, but where and how do I do this?
Have a look to see what startup scripts you have installed. SuSE scripts used to live in /sbin/init.d, but things were rearranged in version 8. So try looking in either /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d Did you alter /etc/fstab by hand or through Yast? If you altered it by hand try taking the line out and going through Yast, that route should ensure that all the correct scripts are installed and started. (If when you originally set up Yast didn't know about any NFS mounts it probably didn't bother to install the second script.) -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763