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Install Linux from another PC ?
Name: Kong Date: January 9, 2001 at 19:40:23 Pacific
Comment:
I had two PCs connected to each other through switch. one of the PCs have CD-Rom drive and the other don't have. so the PC without the CD-Rom drive need to install linux. is it possible to install linux through the network and access the CD-Rom drive of the other PC.
if i don't install from network, once i remove the CD-Rom drive from the PC, i can't boot in to linux again. if like this how can i boot it? can anyboy help me?
Name: marsd Date: January 10, 2001 at 22:29:05 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, use NFS for your shared cd-rom. What distribution are you using? Nfs installs are a little tricky, write back if you run into trouble.
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Response Number 2
Name: oscar Date: January 12, 2001 at 00:01:15 Pacific
Reply:
This is what I also want to do to add an old 486 donated by a friend to my network. But I have a problem: I have set up NFS according to the NFS-HOWTO but when I try to mount the exported cdrom (either on the same machine or another on the network) I get the message "RPC timed out". I also tried exporting a dir on my hard drive but mounting it gives the same message. Does anyone know why it does that and how to fix it?
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Response Number 3
Name: johann Date: March 15, 2001 at 03:05:03 Pacific
Reply:
I got the same problem.
I try NFS and the error: RPC: Portmapper failure, Request timed out
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