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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Provenzano)
Tue Aug 8 09:05:53 1995
To: liorna@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 1995 13:22:35 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 09:05:35 EDT
From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU>
> Hi there,
> I am installing the netbsd on my PC. But I got some strange problem!
>
> When I gave the ip address to the netbsd boot program, I got a strange
> error message looking like this:
>
> "NFS Portmap : RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Time out."
>
> Could You tell me what is wrong with my computer or the nework is out of order???
What it's complaining about is that the portmapper isn't running. This may
be caused by not having networking running, just not starting the protmapper
deamon, or some other failure. Look in /etc/netstart for what is being
started. If you don't plan to use NFS then I suggest just not starting
the nfsd which is what I think is generating the error message.
I've cc'ed this to netbsd-help which is the correct place for asking netbsd
problems.
CAP
