On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:35:56PM -0700, Leng Bengco wrote: > 06.24.04 > > Can you please help me or refer me to a site on > setting up a file server? I am a custodian in a > computer lab. Because of limited resources I cannot > lend all of our students a CDROM drive to install > their preferred linux. I think NFS will help solve > this problem. > > Salamat!
I don't know of any resources, but let me cover the basics: 1. Learn how to use iso's directly. This means if you have a CD, you use "dd if=/dev/hdc of=file.iso" to copy the iso image off. You may also be downloading iso images. 2. Learn how to loop mount the iso's. This makes it easy to "update", since you just need to unmount, copy in the new iso, and remount. mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/suse 3. Make your distro farm available via ftp/http/nfs. Those are the main three ways of getting at installation sources. ftp is probably easiest, but ftp is always dangerous. http isn't difficult, but it's a bit slower. nfs is fast and pretty easy to set up. Good luck. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
