I'm trying to install Slackware 10.2 on my IBM Thinkpad 600e. I'm trying to do an NFS install but after choosing, everythign goes fine but after I choose "Full Installation" it instantly says "Setup Complete" without installing anything!

I just copied the contents of the first two Slacwkare discs into one directory and put it up with with WinNFS.


Does anyone have any clue what this is?

Does your NFS server have the slackware directory with the packages listed like on the FTP server, such as:

slackware/
a/ The A (base) package series.
ap/ The AP (applications) package series.
d/ The D (development) package series.
e/ The E (GNU Emacs) package series.
f/ The F (FAQ/Documentation) package series.
k/ The K (kernel source) package series.
kde/ The KDE package series.
kdei/ The KDE internationalization package series.
l/ The L (libraries) package series.
n/ The N (networking) package series.
t/ The T (TeX) package series.
tcl/ The TCL (Tcl/Tk and related) package series.
x/ The X (X Window System) package series.
xap/ The XAP (X applications) package series.
y/ The Y (BSD games) package series.

I don't think you can just place all packages in one directory, there has to be sub-directories.

Yeah, I just copy pasted all the directories + files to my folder.

Now I've tried to just download the main files + kernel + slackware folders form an ftp. This time it gives me the option of installing the a folder but still doesn't install it.

So you're able to mount a NFS export directory, such as name "slackware", and that export directory has the sub-directories in it with the install files in them, but the files don't install. Is that correct? Could it be a permission problem on the NFS export?

Once the NFS export is mounted, login on another console screen (CTRL-ALT-F2) to get a command prompt and see if you can list the files on the NFS mount. According to the 'INSNFS' script that 'setup' uses to mount NFS, it mounts the NFS export to /var/log/mount.

I'm having a similar problem installing slackware 11 to my laptop with a broken DVD drive, I have successfully booted from PXE (using the huge26 kernel) intending to install from an NFS share. At first it was just kicking me back to setup's main menu after failing to mount the nfs, but once I ran 'network' and specified my nic's chipset it would give me second and third chances to mount it.

I've had my NFS server working properly for months now and am able to browse the share once it's mounted on the laptop. I had failed to set the correct permissions, but after fixing that nothing changed.

In the laptop's /var/log/messages it says "auth.err portmap [some port]: cannot bind udp: address already in use", I tried reloading my nfs server's exports and restarting the nfs server but that didn't help either. I also restarted the portmap daemon on the server to no avail (even rebooted the whole thing after neither of those worked). I googled with that error message but only got one hit which wasn't exactly relevant. I did find a site called slackbasics dot org (I understand that people can't post hyperlinks until they've posted thrice to avoid spam... and I don't feel like posting trivialities so it'll be a couple more posts before I post a link which suggested I manually start rpc.portmap on the laptop but that didn't help either.

One weird thing I noticed is that the setup program does not umount the nfs shares which failed, so I have been manually unmounting them in case the setup program was confused by two different nfs shares mounted on the /var/log/mount dir. Is this a waste of time?

I downloaded the dvd-iso from the slack 11 torrent and have installed from the iso previously so I'm sure it's not corrupted. I installed Fedora from nfs a couple of months ago and it was way easier than this - of course, with Fedora you just point to an nfs share with the unmounted iso.. Too bad I hate fedora once it's installed ..