Tom, You should specify the install directory as an absolute path name: /installroot
In your /etc/exports file, you have /installroot/ *(ro,root_squash,sync) You don't need that trailing slash. /installroot *(ro,root_squash,sync) would work just as well. You don't have to bind mount the directory. You could just export /home/Suse9/installroot and tell YaST to use that: /home/Suse9/installroot *(ro,root_squash,sync) Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Installing Suse 9.0 with NFS Where most of my time, I've tried installing Suse 9.0 with SMB (to no avail), I'm trying a NFS install this weekend (with NFS on my Suse 9.0 laptop). I got the following > 1 nfs > 192.168.99.210 > installroot > > warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory > lockd: failed to open /var/lib/nfs/state: err=-2 > CD not mounted. Please check parameters. > Please specify the installation Source: When I exit the install, do a "mkdir temp" and issue: "mount -t nfs 192.168.99.210:/installroot temp", that seems to work. Well, I can do a LS on temp and see the files back on my laptop. My guess, is the NFS server hasn't setup or authorized directories properly. I created the /installroot directory on the root drive with suse9 and core9 next....etc. Per the RELEASE NOTES, during the install, I just need to specify the directory "installroot". Since this seems to be relative directory, I'm not sure NFS would know where the subdirectory resides. The /etc/exports on the NFS server has: > /installroot/ *(ro,root_squash,sync) That would seem to jive with what I see when I try a manual mount, but I'm not sure that this is what the Suse 9.0 install needs. The Suse 9.0 installation really doesn't talk much about the NFS server, just part of the directory structure that it needs. Now, it may be that my root directory /installroot may have to be a real structure. The actual install files are on /home/Suse9/installroot/sles9.... and accessed as: mount --bind /home/Sues9/installroot /installroot Any ideas on a proper NFS setup. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
