[eudatux23]

Hello there,

I am playing around a bit inside of the miniroot of IRIX 6.5.30.

If i do a 
from 10.123.1.1:/irix/6.5.22/1/dist
it works fine, my NFS share is loaded and I can install its packages.

However, if I do the following inside of inst:
admin sh
mkdir /mnt
mount 10.123.1.1:/irix/6.5.22/1/dist /mnt

I get "nfs: invalid argument"

Is there any special mount param that inst uses and I forgot? The NFS server is a Debian VM.

Thank you very much in advance!

[eudatux23]

As far as I can see, inst uses rsh to mount it?? At least I can see a successful rshd connection in my server logs, when inst mounts the folder..

[eudatux23]

Together with the Discord channel I found out how it really works: inst connects via rsh to the server and after that it does
dd if=/filename bs=512
inside of rsh to tunnel the actual file contents through this. It does that for every filename it finds in the index file of the package source. So no NFS is used at all. I have been able to verify that via Wireshark. Very strange!