On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Peter wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just bumped into a problem I'm unable to fix by myself. I decided to put
> my old IBM Thinkpad 755CX to some use. Since I had a Slackware 4 cd I
> thought I'd try an nfs install with a pcmcia card (I don't have a cd in
> the laptop). So I start off by making a bootdisk with bareapm.i and a
> rootdisk with pcmcia.gz. I boot the laptop with the bootdisk and give
> the command 'ramdisk root=/dev/fd0' at the bootpromt. The I insert the
> pcmia disk when prompted and run setup, setting up all partitons I need
> I get to the point where I state what source disk to use. I choose nfs
> and give my network info (IP, Netmask, D.G., nfs-server IP). The
> computer then tries to mount the nfs drive, but it doesn't work. Logging
> in on tty2 and running the command rpc.portmap -d i get the following
> error message:
>
> portmap [588]: cannot bind udp: address already in use
>
> The question is: what address? I tried changing the hardware address
> for the eth0 device, but that didn't help. I've used different IP
> addresses, but that didn't help either. I've used three different pcmcia
> cards; 3c563D, 3c589D and a Xircom CEM56-100, but no luck. Anyone have
> any idea what I have overlooked?
I would try booting with net.i I'm not sure if bare.i (or bareapm.i)
includes enough support for network cards.
Frank
>
> TIA
>
> /Peter
>
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