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[jfondow1@xxxxxxxx (Jonathan)]

I found the ftp method to be much easier than setting up NFS.  I just
mounted the cd in a local suse box that allowed ftp and then pointed the
installation to that machine for ftp install

Juergen Braukmann wrote:
> 
> Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> >
> > I have a very old 486 33 Mhz that I want to use as a router. The problem
> > is that it is very old, having a CD (I installed several years after it
> > was bought) that is very non-standard. I hope I can somehow install w/o
> > using this CD, as I imagine there's a lot of work getting it to function
> > (the CD is connected to a create soundblaster sound card).
> >
> > There's a working network card in the computer. Can I install using
> > that?
> >
> 
> Both choices are nearly equal effort:
> 1) try and error with "non standard" CD modules and bootdisk
>    (my very slightly preffered one)
> 
> 2) NFS install. configure one machine as NFS server by
>    - editing /etc/exports to export the /cdrom dir
>    - restarting / starting the nfsserver
> 
> The whole latter procedure should be discribed in the manual.
> In theory you can copy all cd's to a server dir as well, make sure to
> copy the hidden files as well...
> 
> my /etc/exports looks like:
> # See exports(5) for a description.
> # This file contains a list of all directories exported to other
> computers.
> # It is used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd.
> /cdrom          install.forty.two(ro) arthurdent.forty.two(ro)
> /usr/src        arthurdent.forty.two(rw, no_root_squash)
> 192.168.42.142(rw, no_root_squash)
> #
> 
> Juergen
> 
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