Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[Nick Selby <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
On Sunday 28 July 2002 19:37, Nils-Olov Fransson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If you want to mount a CD/DVD that is on a Windows machine you can use this
> command as root
>  mount -t smbfs //tellus/E /your/mountpoint
> Where tellus is the windows computer, E is the DVD-drive, /yuor/mountpoint
> is where you want to mount the DVD on your macine.

Yes. Sadly, however, I get 

packet send failed to 255.255.255.255(137) ERRNO=Network is unreachable
packet send failed to 255.255.255.255(137) ERRNO=Network is unreachable
561: Connection to win2k failed
SMB connection failed

Hmmm. It appears that perhaps samba AIN'T working here. I ran 

smbclient -U% -L localhost

And it told me it had major headaches. 

However, 

> Are you going to install new programs or upgrade to a later release of
> SuSE? 

Yup

If you are going to upgrade to a later release I think you need to
> copy the DVD to a partition on your notebook. there have been postings
> recently in this list that covers installation from hard disc. But if you
> have an other Linux computer on your network I think it's easier to copy
> the DVD to that computer and use NFS when you install/update your notebook.

Okay. So lemme get this straight. I copy the DVD - the whole shebang - onto 
the linux machine, for example, that I am typing this on. (do I just 

cp * /home/nick/susedvd/  

?)

Then, I ask from looking at man mount and pure guesswork, on the old crummy 
suse notebook I do 

mount -t nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft //linux/home/nick/susedvd/ /susedvd/

Sounds reasonable? Or do I need to make an fstab entry for the nfs "drive"?

Thanks for your patience with my guesswork and newbieness.

NIck