Re: Question about mounting network shares from Live CD

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Jim Adams wrote:

> Greetings all,
> First, thanks for what appears to be an IT
> administrator's dream distro. I need to save files on
> a farked windows98 box by booting with BBC, mounting a
> share on a Netmax Linux server, copying the files from
> the dead HD to the Linux Server, and then once the
> Win98 machine is back up and running, reloading the
> files from the server.
>
> I haven't had any problem at all getting the cd to
> boot and and the network configured. I tried mounting
> the server share with mount -t ....., but it wouldn't
> work. What would be the best way to do this?

Is it nfs? (start portmap) or samba (mount -t smb)?

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