NFS stands for Network File System it is the 'standard' for *nix
computers to share drives/file systems/files. It works in about the
same concept as most win32 users share drives, directoies and files on a
NT or peer to peer win32 network.
You can export (or share in win32) almost any drive, filesystem
(directory in win32) or file to another computer on the network.
To export files in linux though NFS is really simple, there is a 5-10
page NFS-howto that explains how to do this, in 20 minutes you can set
up and export filesystems under linux with this doc, it is worth the
read. It can be found under /usr/doc or www.linux.org click support
click howto.
After you get the NFS export setup on the server, read the documenation
that came with RedHat to explain how to install via NFS, it should only
be 5 pages at most. If you don't have documenation, just boot the
laptop from the RH install disk. Somewhere in there is will *have* to
ask you where the source media is, choose NFS and go from there. You
may have to load a module for your network card, if you see a place to
do it before it asks you for the install media, do it.
David Huybregts wrote:
>
> Hello Pascal,
>
> I'm a newbie, so be patient...
>
> >mount your redhat cdrom into your already installed linux computer
>
> I can do that...
>
> >export it through NFS
>
> I wish I knew how... Do you mean to send the contents of the Red Hat CD to
> the one without the CD-rom player?
>
> >on the new one, do a redhat 6.0 NFS install
>
> >(all is fairly well explained on readhet docs)
>
> I hardly understand what you are talking about. So don't come to me with the
> doc's... sorry.
>
> >> How can I install RedHat 6.0 on my laptop without a CD-rom player?
> >> It has a DEC network card and is by Win'95 (YUCK) connected to another
> Linux machine...
>
> If you can be more specific, please do.
> David.
