LiveCd with NFS server capabilites. 2281

Jim

Hi Jim, i thank you for all the trouble with this little howto about nfs exporting :) i've save it in my colecction of god tips ;)

I allready have a home lan with 3 pc's sharing parts of there disks by nfs.

What i'm trying to do is this: sometimes i have here pcs that there operative sistem is not operating anymore ;) and i need to do some file savings of important documents from those pc's and i would like to scan them with clamav too.

Using a live cd on the damaged pc, i can easy mount there my export folders shared by my computers but i can't do the other way around. So, i can only scan the damaged pc directly on it, and copy some files to my pc. I would like to do the other way around... share everything on the damaged pc, and search for important files and scan his disks from my pc.

where is what i do on the damaged pc: --boot the damaged pc with knoppix --set the eth0 to meet my lan network, after that, i can ping from the damaged pc, all my pc's in the lan and i can even get internet on it. in this case the damaged pc gets the 192.168.1.3 ip. i can also ping the damaged pc from my one. --edit theetc-exports and just add a simple temporary export *(rw) this would give full access to all the system. --then i do this:etc-init.d-portmap restartetc-init.d-nfs-common restartetc-init.d-nfs-kernel-server restart (sometimes this command hangs and i don't know why) # exportfs this command give this output: looks like everything is ready...

then i go to my pc and do this: # mount 192.168.1.3:-mnt-Rede-Trabalhosometimes i get: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.3' failed. and other times i get: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.3' failed. server is down.

note that i can mount nfs exports from other pcs with installed systems, it's just the ones running live-cds that i can't.

comparing things on all pc's i've found out that: all my installed systems have a kernel module running named "exportfs" see example: # lsmodgrep nfs nfs 216520 0 nfsd 228640 13 exportfs 4736 1 nfsd lockd 59656 3 nfs,nfsd nfsacl 2880 2 nfs,nfsd sunrpc 128572 10 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfsacl

but on the live-cd running pc, modprobe tells me that modules "exportfs" does not exist.

so far this is the only diference i find, and looks like this is why other pc's can't find a nfs server running on the live-cd running pc.

adding a module on a live-cd is out of a question... so, what to do here?

i've tryied knoppix, slax and kurumin... none has the exportfs module.

oh... i've also tryed to do the export only to a area that as really write capabibreasties like mnt-hda5 *(rw) and # mount 192.168.1.3:-mnt-hda5mnt-Rede-Trabalhoso, this is not working because i'm trying to mount read-only media as rw.

so now i repeat my question: does anybody knows a live-cd that has the exportfs module on it?

I have a big and heavy one here... ready :)

thanks ArameFarpado