I tried adding the line cholla:/export/home/cds /mnt/cholla nfs user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,soft 1 1 to /etc/fstab (using linuxconf). mount version 2.8a as distributed with redhat linux 5.2 wouldn't do it, complaining that it couldn't find /mnt/cholla in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. mount 2.71 works fine with this entry.
Ok, I see from Bug #49 that I had some invalid lines in my /etc/fstab file (three zeros at the end). Commenting out those lines made things work fine. But how did they get that way? I didn`t put them there. They were /dev/hda1 none ignore 0 0 0 /dev/hda2 none ignore 0 0 0 Are they left-overs from the previous 5.0 or 5.1 installation?