Using PLIP to install Slack 10 - NFS broken
 

hiya everyone

i want to install my slackware 10 onto my laptop

the laptop does not have a cdrom drive (it broke) so henec i am using a bidirectional parallel cable to connect my laptop and my main box (also slackware 10).

i boot bare.i and run install.1, install.2, and network.dsk disks on the laptop

then on the laptop i carry out these commands:

modprobe plip
modprobe parport_pc
ifconfig plip0 192.168.0.2 pointopoint 192.168.0.1 up
route add 192.168.0.1 dev plip0
route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev plip0

and on my main box i run all these commands to set up nfs:

modprobe plip
modprobe parport_pc
ifconfig plip0 192.168.0.1 pointopoint 192.168.0.2 up
route add 192.168.0.1 dev plip0
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
echo "/mnt/cdrom 192.168.0.2(ro)" > /etc/exports
rpc.portmap
rpc.mountd
rpc.statd
rpc.nfsd

i can ping 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 between the laptop and my main box etc.

trouble is that rpc.nfsd is not loading on the server so i cannot get nfs to run even though 'nfs server support v3' is compiled into the kernel and dmesg mentions 'nfsd' but rpcinfo shows no sign of nfs :(:(:(

any idea of what i can do to get nfs running on the server??