use dvd drive as nfs

polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

This is the situation:
I have a router and two pc's are connected to it.
One PC is running gentoo, on the other I want to install SuSE 10, I have a SuSE 10 DVD, but the PC where it has to be installed on doesn't have a DVD drive.
The idea I'm thinking of is to set up on my gentoo an NFS server and as share the mounted SuSE DVD.
And then boot the other PC with a boot cdrom of SuSE and perform a network install.
But I never worked with NFS before so maybe someone can point me to the steps I have to take?
Or can I just share the dvd drive under samba? (don't know of hte boot cd of SuSE supports this)

adnoh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 120

to do the NFS setup edit your /etc/exports
/media/dvd *(ro,async)

it's just an example. You must change your path to something where your dvd is mounted.
the * means everybody can connect. you could change to something like 192.168.* for your subnet.

or google for NBD (NetworkBlockDevice) - if I remember correctly you can publicate every blockdevice with this.
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polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

I tried that, should work serverside (gentoo) seems ok (read the wiki and got no failures after probing)
however when I try to connect from the client, after giving the command nothing happens, even the prompt doesn't return, have to check that.

adnoh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 120

you've to start your portmap on the client side - sorry, I've vorgot. Maybe this helps
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