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Sheldon Isaac wrote:
>
> I got the  TCPIP1.TGZ  and (I think) installed it on both 
> computers running BL2.1 from hard drive.

You only need to run the NFS server on one computer.

> I was up until 2:30 last night (morning) trying to get
> mount -t nfs othercomputer:/shared-directory /mnt 
> to work.

Assuming you are on 192.168.1.2 and the server is running
on 192.168.1.1
-------------------------
mount 192.168.1.1:/  /mnt
-------------------------

> (it refused, I forgot the exact message - not allowed, or whatever?)

Probably a permission problem.  The NFS server checks for 
permission in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/exports.

> As of now, I see that /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1  is zero bytes ??

That's strange.

> Should I (how?) remove (what?) was installed from tcpip1.tgz  

No.

> are there configuration files to edit?

Only on the NFS server (eg. 192.168.1.1):

/etc/hosts.allow 
-----------------
ALL:  192.168.1.2
-----------------

/etc/exports
-------------------
/   192.168.1.2(rw)
-------------------


> If I say   rc.inet2   the messages say 

Most of rc.inet2 is unnecessary.  

> ./rc.inet2:  /sbin/mount:  No such file or directory

And (like the the Slackware pcmcia script) it is looking
in the wrong directory for a basic binary (mount).

The NFS daemon (nfsd) requires two other daemons be running 
(portmap and mountd).  So, to start NFS, I do this:
-----------
rpc.portmap
rpc.mountd
rpc.nfsd
-----------

Cheers,
Steven