You can do this with NFS. Steps are:
1. On the server, make sure that the following processes are running:
rpc.portmap
rpc.nfsd
rpc.mountd
(Their respective man pages will tell you the details of what each is for.)
2. Create or edit the file /etc/exports to list the fliesystem you want to
export. You won't list /dev/hda1 here, but instead its mount point (probably
/) on the server. (That is, you don't mount partitions; you mount filesystems.)
"man exports" will tell you what you need to know about setting options here.
3. On the client, you can then mount the remote filesystem from the command
line with a line something like this:
mount servername:/ /mnt/somename
where servername = the hostname (or IP address) of the server
/ = the name of the filesystem to be mounted
/mnt/someplace = the mount point on the client
4. Once you have verified via step 3 that the NFS mount is working, you can
add this filesystem to the list in /etc/fstab . But here I'm not sure of the
details; there are some fiddly problems you need to deal with.
Note that making your root partition available via NFS has some serious
security risks, so think carefully about alternatives to mounting the entire
filesystem.
At 08:41 AM 1/7/99 -0500, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote:
>Hello list:
>
>I have to boxes networked, telnet, ftp , and rlogin are working. Both
>machines are running Slackware 3.6 with kernel 2.0.35. My question is,
>how can I mount the partition (hda1) from one machine to the next? (
>/mnt/othermachine ) Thanks in advance, Ronald.
>
>
>
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