Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon

On 8/9/26 08:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 09/08/2026 08:45, c186282 wrote:
>> I can't use my usual fstab line for mounting NFS shares.
>>    Crashes on boot. You get a text login, but it's not
>>    REALLY root and you can't fix fstab. Weird.
> 
> That was happening to me for a while.
> 
> Systemd scripts didn't realise you can't mount filesystems till the 
> network is up
> 
> Now the worstthat happens with wifi networks  is that the nfs mounts 
> time out and I have to mount later on

   Ah ... SOLVED my NFS mounting issue. I just
   copied the OLD fstab over. Thing is, the
   new install changed the UUID numbers for the
   primary 'drive' and swap. So, on starting,
   the system couldn't find dick.

   THIS time copied JUST the NFS mount line. Now
   everything works fine.

   SOMETIMES it's simple.

   The nfs shit in fstab, note the optional timeout
   params. These, for me, eliminated the "sometimes
   mounts, sometimes doesn't" issues.

   My "NFS" - ha ha - is mostly USB drives plus
   one e-SATA inside the mini-box. Anyway, the
   best plan is to find ways to introduce short
   DELAYS - so the USBs can be found in the first
   place - before the NFS sharing process. There
   IS a utility someone wrote to kind of reset
   the whole USB bus - as if the drives were plugged
   in a little later.

   The biggest NFS I put together from scratch was
   nine 6tb magnetic drives, had to build a rack
   and fan assembly to fit 'em in the box. Centos.

   Then bought a Synology NFS box - which IS Linux
   under the hood and pretty good. Note to put any
   extra scripts out of the main list of sys folders
   because they get overwritten on updates. As we
   had a shitload of Winders workstations had to
   write a script defining lots of 'aliases' because
   Winders, SO helpfully, won't let you mount more
   than one or two shares with the same base IP addr.

   Except now still can't update to the latest greatest
   kernel ...... poorly-defined "dependencies' that I
   probably couldn't fix anyway.

   MAY have to try and do an in-place update from the
   BookWorm base to Trixie. It CAN be done, but it's
   a bit messy and risky.

   Yea yea, Ubuntu claims to do it "easy". NOT true !
   The few times I did it I had to keep three or four
   terminals open just so I could consolidate the
   "updates". One terminal would freeze, start using
   the next.