> Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry > that references a NFS mounted filesystem? > > The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine > NFS server machine is unavailable.
Read mount_nfs(8), there are options that do what you want. Of course understand that while what you want to do is cool in some cases (doesn't hang the machine), depending on the usage it may do more evil (a file access failing as opposed to succeeding a minute later).
