Jamie ,
Just share your cdrom on the server , not its ip address , then you can do
one of two things ,
You can mount the shared cdrom by passing the ip address and path (check
the docs for complete info) or just start up yast , and do a network (nfs)
install. You will need the detials of the network card and the ip of your
server and cdrom path.
If you install samba you can even use a shared windowes cdrom ( of cource
you will need to have a basic suse os installed for this) but it can be
done as well. I did this by fist seting up a plian linux on a widows
machinbe and rebooting and sharing the cd ron drive , Installed the os from
the linux server to the other machine , then went back and removed the
linux from the win machine , and used smbmount to share the windows drive.
This is what I love about linux , you can do just about anything , no holes
bared.
At 12:55 PM 4/20/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Jamie O'Shaughnessy wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to install SuSE on a machine with not CD? It is on
>> a network which has got a SuSE 6 Linux box on (with a CD). In the manual it
>> says you can install from an FTP site or NFS. Will sharing my CD drive from
>> my existing machine, over NFS work? What about when it needs to change CD?
>> I assume to install from NFS or FTP you need images of all the CDs
>> available and you won't be able to share a CD in this way?
>
>The way I have been doing this is by ftp, using a valid user's name on
>the server. I mount the cdrom on the Linux machine, start the install
>with the floppy on the client, choose ftp, use my login on the server
>and type /cdrom for the install directory. Works very well.
>
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