Hi all,
after spending quite some time on Mandrake's site, Google, the list
archive and the twiki, I'm still none the wiser: What *is* the correct
(or best) way to use the NFS install option?
Here's what I have so far:
With 9.1, I had the first CDROM mounted on the server and exported as
NFS share. On the machine I was installing 9.1 on, I chose NFS install
and gave the directory on the server. So far, so good. But: The
install fails, as I only have one CD available and it doesn't give
me the option to mount another one later (at least not as far as I can
see). I then experimented with just mounting a partition with the ISOs
on it, but that seemed to be a non-starter. I've used that technique
in Red Hat Linux 7.3 before, with a hard disk install: You put the
ISOs on a partition, point the installer to them and the installer
will use them. So, either this isn't possible via NFS or MDK doesn't
support this (or, if it is supported, I wasn't able to find the
documentation describing it).
In the end, I ended up copying the contents of all three CDs on one
partitions into one big tree. That's possible, of course, but feels
rather "clumsy", never mind that I'd have to do it for even more CDs
with 9.2 (as I went for the Power Pack).
Is there a better way? And where do I find it documented?
Cheerio,
Thomas
P.S.: A bit of background: The installation is on a laptop with no
CDROM, hence, a network install is the only option. NFS seemed
the easiest option, as I have a file server anyway. FTP I would
have to install (and uninstall later), which is more work... :-}
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