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