The NFS issue I asked about has ben solved (thanks Damian for that last little bit of the puzzle!). A recap for those who search this list later for answers about installing Linux to a machine over a network using NFS (man exports; man mount; man fstab; man nfs for more info): Took the SuSE 8.0 DVD and copied out the bootdisk, modules1, modules2, modules3 disks onto floppies from my windows machine following the instructions in the readme file in the /disks directory on the DVD Copied the ENTIRE suse DVD onto the hard drive of the machine on which I was to serve the installation files from INCLUDING the following hidden file from the DVD to the top level of the directory in which I copied the SuSE DVD
.S.u.S.E-disk-001.2002040315
Exported - allowed to be viewed over the NFS file server - the directory into which I copied the SuSE DVD by adding it to /etc/exports SET the fstab mount instructions for the exported directory to be faster (as in DSL v. overweighted trans-continental Courier Pigeon faster) by adding this to my fstab (with heaps of caveats as described in above HOWTO) server:/home/nick/suse /home/nick/suse nfs rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr Restarted the NFS Server (from inside Yast 2, though only after hand configuring most of it per the instructions in the document on the DVD /suse/docu/NFS-HOWTO) with the information about the client I was allowing to come in and shop around. Booted the other machine with the floppy bootdisk and then added the modulesX disks as requested Selected Start Installation Selected Network Installation Allowed it to get an IP by DHCP Entered the IP of the machine on which the NFS server was waiting Entered the directory specified in the fsatb file Set up as usual in Yast. Installation went perfectly. Thanks very much to Nils, Damian and Keith, Mike, Steve and Stephen and everyone else as usual for help with this matter. Nick On Monday 29 July 2002 12:17, Damian Ohara wrote:
Nick,
Did you copy/create the following hidden files from the DVD to the top level of your NFS expert directory ?
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