Hello,

What I want to do is setup my desktop as a NFS server. The desktop is running SUSE 8.2 I want to install Slackware 9.1 on my laptop. The problem is, the CD-Rom is PCMCIA (NW24XCD) and I'm unable to get slack to see it during setup. I have a Linksys 4 port router with DHCP enabled. Could someone please give me step-by-step instructions on how to do this?

Many Thanks,
James

here's something that might comprise a "step by step" walkthrough:

1) get the rootdisks for slackware (make sure they have the kernel version of whatever version of slackware you're installing); this should be 4 disks: 1) bootdisk (usually w/ bare.i kernel) 2 & 3) install.1 and install.2 (it will prompt for these disks, so don't insert until asked to do so) 4) pcmcia disk

2) boot from the disks and when you get a network device (like a pcmcia ethernet card) working, setup a network between the two computers; do this using "ifconfig <your interface name, usually eth0> 192.168.1.2 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" (this is for a network on the 192.168.1.0 class C subnet); make sure the card on the desktop is set to, say 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0, then ping between the computers using the command "ping 192.168.1.1" to check that the connection is up; it's up if you get the packet latency outputs; make sure that you have a CROSSOVER cable for the task, or this will not work (google for this if you are confused)

3) setup the nfs server on the desktop and make sure the firewall and tcp-wrapper don't stop the nfs services from seeing the laptop; attempt to mount the nfs directories by issuing "mount -t nfs 192.168.1.1:/home/nfs.packages /mnt/extra"; this should give some debugging outputs, etc.

if you don't know how to setup NFS, check out the linux-howto on it.

gl,
y-p

Thanks for your help! I was able to get everything work fine with your help.