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| krazykatt |
 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:05 am |
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I am attempting to install Slackware Linux 10.2 using NFS from one
linux computer in my network to another. I'm able to create the NFS
exported drive and mount to it which I check by listing the contents of
the mounted folder.
However, when I run setup and select "Select Categories of Software to
Install" several times nothing appeared. When I
checked the mounted drive I noticed that it had mysteriously been
unmounted.
Other times, only '[X] A base linux system' appears.
I am using the four iso images for slackware which are all
saved in the same mounted directory.
What's up?
Thanks,
Krazy |
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| Michael Bueker |
| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:00 am |
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krazykatt wrote:
Quote: I am attempting to install Slackware Linux 10.2 using NFS from one
linux computer in my network to another. I'm able to create the NFS
exported drive and mount to it which I check by listing the contents of
the mounted folder.
However, when I run setup and select "Select Categories of Software to
Install" several times nothing appeared. When I
checked the mounted drive I noticed that it had mysteriously been
unmounted.
Other times, only '[X] A base linux system' appears.
I am using the four iso images for slackware which are all
saved in the same mounted directory.
Make sure the NFS mount points to either (I don't remember which)
slackware-10.2/ itself, or just slackware-10.2/slackware/.
I remember having the same problem and changing that helped.
~Mik
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| Eric Hameleers |
| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:47 am |
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krazykatt wrote:
Quote: I am attempting to install Slackware Linux 10.2 using NFS from one
linux computer in my network to another. I'm able to create the NFS
exported drive and mount to it which I check by listing the contents of
the mounted folder.
However, when I run setup and select "Select Categories of Software to
Install" several times nothing appeared. When I
checked the mounted drive I noticed that it had mysteriously been
unmounted.
Other times, only '[X] A base linux system' appears.
I am using the four iso images for slackware which are all
saved in the same mounted directory.
What's up?
Thanks,
Krazy
Unlike Redhat, the Slackware installer can not use ISO images that it
finds at the NFS mount. You will have to unpack the CD1 and CD2
because these contain the packages to install.The Slackware installer
will look for a directory that contains the a, ap, d, ..... package
directories.
You can use loopmounts and unionfs if you don't want to waste disk
space on copying the contents of the ISOs.
I usually do these three commands (the path names will be different in
your case):
mount -o loop /isos/slackware-10.2-install-d1.iso /mnt/sw10.2.cd1
mount -o loop /isos/slackware-10.2-install-d2.iso /mnt/sw10.2.cd2
mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/mnt/sw10.2.cd1=ro:/mnt/sw10.2.cd2=ro none
/live/slackware-10.2
It results in a directory /live/slackware-10.2 where the "merged
contents" of CD1 and CD2 are available to you. This directory can then
be exported through NFS. This will only work with recent distributions
where you can use "fsid" option in the exports file. For instance, the
/etc/exports should have aline like this:
/live/slackware-10.2 *(ro,fsid=42,async,insecure,all_squash)
You can find a package for unionfs at
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/unionfs/ ; use the
SlackBuild to build your own if a package is not available for your
kernel.
Cheers, Eric |
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