Before you can use NFS, be it as server or client, you must make sure your
kernel has NFS support compiled in. Newer kernels have a simple interface
on the proc filesystem for this, the
/proc/filesystems file, which you can display
using cat:
$ cat /proc/filesystems
minix
ext2
msdos
nodev proc
nodev nfs |
If nfs is missing from this
list, you have to compile your own kernel with NFS enabled, or perhaps
you will need to load the kernel module if your NFS support was
compiled as a module. Configuring the kernel network options is
explained in the “Kernel Configuration” section of Chapter 3.
