On Friday 10 June 2005 14:30, steve wrote:
That still didn't get it. It may be a NIS issue. I started setting up NIS at one point, and realized it was going to take more effort than I had time for.
Using Yast, NIS is about 5 clicks per client maybe 6 for a server;-) But that shouldn't have any bearing on your nfs problem.
Yes, but I already had shares, and /etc/hosts established. Things weren't working when I started the NIS server, so I turned it off and decided to investigate it another day.
Right now I can't change it because I'm copying the CDs to the installation server share point. That was what I was trying to avoid by pointing to the DVD. I don't have a DVD drive on the installation server, so I wanted to point YaST to a shared DVD drive on the network. It's not all that much effort to fish the disks.
We tried mounting the 9.3 dvd as a NFS share for our installation server but there were timing problems as the disk had to spin up to speed and even then it could only cope with one install at a time. I'd recommend copying the whole lot to a hard drive somewhere on your lan (it's about 8GB) mounting it somewhere and exporting _that_. The speed increase will impress. Steve.
That's what I'm trying to do. I actually had copied (scp -r * host:/location) the image to the server where I'm setting up the Installation Server. But the server wanted to copy it all again. I also wasn't too confident as to what was actually on the server since I received a lot of IO error messages when it tried to copy the 64 bit directory. -- Regards, Steven