NFS Mount: anyone tried this?
 

Some time ago I found a set of instructions to mount an external storage on N770:

http://linux.seindal.dk/item91.html

They work well and all is ok, I usually mount my PC HDD to see videos etc. without having to transfer them on the MMC once I am at home. (using a NFS server on XP, through a wireless router)

The only cons is that it takes a loooooong time to mount (1 min more or less). In that page, someone also linked to:

http://vidar.gimp.org/n770/slackware.phpx

saying that doing that installations would help having a very fast mount.

Did anyone tried that? I get errors when installing coreutils (something like "usr/bin/comm not found in package")!

I also tried sending an email to that guy but receive no answer..

Thanks for your help.

I am
 

I followed his (http://vidar.gimp.org/n770/slackware.phpx) instructions and it works great, mounts in about 1 second?

There is a portmap deb in the ApplicationCatalog:

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Applicati...ca92f37f2a3efe

This means you don't have to faff about with the ARMedslack "packages".

I've installed portmap and NFS mounts are near instanteous.

It takes quite a bit of CPU to access files from an NFS share, though.

How do the install / port works? Do you have a NFS on Win or Linux?

Ah! I'll try this out, thanks a lot. Do I have to start portmap each time I want to mount an NFS partition? Is there any problem if I start portmap during 770 boot? (I know how to do)

Should be fine to start it once during boot.

Get a "Impossible to execute the installation. PaAckage not compatible"

Argh!!!

No one knows how I should get rid of this?

I'd try contacting the person who packaged it: http://armin-warda.de/

install from command line
 

dpkg --force-not-root --root=/var/lib/install --install package.deb


:)

If that's the only way to get it working, the package should be moved off ApplicationCatalog and on to the WIP page.

Not sure where it should be? But that will install it
 

If not for command line, most apps I have would not be installed. I do not use the application installer since most packages fail to install through the application installer anyway (at least on my 770), besides it makes rebuilding your 770 much quicker to put it in a script and install everything at once. I will put any software I find that works on my 770, armed or other, if it works its fair game. I can always try the maemo version later when it comes out. Until then command line works for me :D

penguinbait: fair enough; but most things now won't install probably because of your use of dpkg ;-)

The usual way to install from the command line on the 770 is:

But again, that assumes the debs are valid, 2005 OS compatible ones.

um, no!
 

Actually that is incorrect, please refer to

http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howto...n_package.html

You should run as install, that is correct, but the command line is wrong.

This is the correct syntax

dpkg --force-not-root --root=/var/lib/install --install package.deb


So this would not have broken my installer :D

Nope, the portmap deb worked for me fine.
 

I've downloaded the portmap deb from the ApplicationCatalog page, installed it with the Application Installer, and it works just fine. NFS mounts are fast.

penguinbait: OK, it seems they are synonmous. The canonical way to drive the App Installer (rather than dpkg directly) is with the command I gave, however.

mgedmin: ah, that's good :-)

I'm trying to run a NFS server on OSX 10.3.9 (panther), but having trouble getting it all to work. I followed the instructions here: http://www2.astcomm.net:2080/tech/nfs_howto/server/ and downloaded the NFS Manager app for OSX, but still no luck. Am I missing something here, I'm new to this kind of thing, so please be kind.

got a "dpkg: peration requires read/write access to dpkg area". Any advice?