NFS Install
I'm trying to install Slackware 14.1 onto a laptop using NFS from a remote PC. When following the install setup program mounting NFS brings up an error.
so I tried to mount the remote drive using the mount command at the prompt and it won't work. To keep it simple I tried to mount the remote drive 192.168.1.1 to a local directory /fred. :/#mount -t nfs 192.168.1.1: /fred I get a time out. I can ping in both directions. |
you didn't specified the share on remote drive: <server>:<share>
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mount -t nfs 192.168.1.1:/share_name /fred |
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My donor PC is XP and it has one large drive partitioned into C: D: and E:. I'm guessing there must be some way of pointing the ip address 192.168.1.1 to drive C: |
wait, are you trying to mount a share from a windows os? is windows really running a nfs server?
otherwise you must use cifs/smb: Code:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/share_name /fred |
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Just to recap, you have the Slackware 14.1 distribution on a USB memory stick. You can now PXE boot the Slackware 14.1 installer on your target PC. All you should need to do is to plug the USB memory stick into your Windows XP Home PC, and then set that to be a shared drive. Then you should be able mount the shared drive from within the Slackware installer using a command like that suggested by gengisdave. i.e.
At the root prompt in the Slackware installer do Code:
mkdir /mnt/usb The contents of the memory stick should now be exposed under /mnt/usb in the Slackware installer. |
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Well pardon me for not keeping up. :P
The technique should still be applicable. |
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