Re: nfs-common needed on NFS-rooted client?

[Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>]

Mike wrote:

  > The mount command also might be needed to update /etc/mtab if you don't have
  > it linked to /proc.  Does "mount" return the expected results?
  
  The kernel root mount is in /proc/mounts, but not in "mount"'s output.
  A rootfs at / is present in both.

You could fix that, if you care, by linking /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab.  But
if you've got the rootfs entry then things like "df" are probably ok, so it
might not matter.

Other than that, I can't think of any reason you really need nfs-common,
especially since you say it works without.  Not having the man page for the
mount options might be your biggest problem.  Google "nfs mount options"
will fix that.