[svlug] Life without a CD drive...

[Ray Olszewski]

The short answer is yes. 

The longer answer is that you need to have the appropriate daemons (rpc.nfsd
and rpc.mountd) running on the desktop box as well, and you need to
configure /etc/exports on the desktop to allow its drives to be mounted by
the laptop. This is just the standard NFS stuff.

In fact, most distributions of Linux can be installed via NFS; this is the
way I now always do it on machines that lack a CD-ROM drive. Using Slackware
as an example (and assuming you already have networking configured and NFS
running on the desktop box), you just put in /etc/exports a line similar to
this one (changing the IP network and netmask as needed):

/cdrom/slakware         192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Create the physical network connection between the two machines. Then from
the Linux floppy startup disk, choose NFS installation at the appropriate
point, assign an IP address, and it should go smoothly. (I've done this with
Slackware and Debian, and I believe the other main distributions also allow
NFS installs.)

At 08:13 AM 11/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
>hey all,
>
>i just bought a sony 505F, which is unbelieveably cool, and also lacks a CD
>ROM drive.  I haven't installed linux on it yet, but once i do i'm hoping to
>network it with my desktop linux box, and set up NFS.  this would give me
>access to the desktops drive right?  danke.
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