From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021203 Description of problem: Choosing "y" at the question whether to activate NFS or not doesn't start the required services, rendering NFS non-functional when using the "System Administrator Tools for Red Hat Linux 8.0" CD. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from 8.0's sysadmin CD 2.Choose "y" when asked for NFS 3.mount an NFS filesystem from a remote server Actual Results: No prompt will be shown again after issueing the "mount" command. Filesystem is not mounted. Expected Results: Remote filesystem should be mounted and accessible, prompt should be seen almost immediately after issueing the "mount" command. Additional info: The "portmap" service is *not* actually started. This is caused by the following line in /etc/init.d/portmap: [ -w /etc/passwd ] || exit 0 Since "/" is mounted read-only, this test obviously fails and portmap will not be started. There is no actual user control (you're not required to login in, aren't you ;-) ), so the above line doesn't really make any sense for the sysadmin CD and should be removed.
This should work now.