Scenario: I am running out of room in my /home directory:

Solution: I have a second drive on a NIS server that I want to use for more space. NIS is installed and working fine.

Problem: How do I format the new drive and make a link to it so it appears t be my /home directory? I know how to mount a drive on a different computer exportd yada yada. All I need to know is
how to create a link...

One more thing: I noticed I have lots of free space on my boot partition 32M free. Should I leave this alone or use it. I have a feeling that space is used during boot as a temp and then deleted. Not sure though.

I meant NFS not NIS

Leave the boot partition alone.

To format drive:
Create an ext2 partition using fdisk
mk2efs /dev/hdxx (where xx is your specific paramters)

create a directory in your /home i.e
mkdir /home/username/nfs_drive

Then mount the nfs drive to the directory.

On your NFS server all you need to do is create a '/export/home' directory (name it whatever you like) and put it in the export list for the nfsd. On the client machine, all you have to do is mount the nfs parition on top of your /home directory. You will have to move the old data either somewhere else or to the new partition before you mount or it will be unaccessable while the NFS parition is mounted. The command to nfs mount is something like this:

Thanks!!!