How, for the love of me, do you get that stupid NFS working properly?

 

1. I cannot install from CD-rom with bootdisk. (Cdrom doesn't support CDR'S)

2. I cannot install over the internet. (Locks up halfway through the install)

3. I cannot figure out NFS. (Starts to install then can't find the files)

 

 

Wooooo whooooo

NFS ?

 

whats that ?

network file system. Kind of like sharing a directory in a MS network

 

at what point does it error on the nfs install

what exactly are you installing? Are you using the rpms? apt-get? up2date? NFS is really easy to setup. Here is a quickie.

 

First you need to add the filesystem you want shared to /etc/exports.

 

Example for /etc/exports:

[root@paradox root]# cat /etc/exports

/nfs 192.168.1.0/24(rw)

 

Now you will need to start the portmap daemon (service portmap start) and nfs (service nfs start). To make this always start at boot issue the chkconfig command: chkconfig nfs on && chkconfig portmap on. Now with your share dir added to /etc/exports issue the exportfs command as root:

 

[root@paradox root]# exportfs

/nfs 192.168.1.0/24

 

This is now sharing out the /nfs dir on the box to any ip in the 192.168.1.0/24 range, with read and write priveleges.

 

- grep420

Thanks that's awsome grep420, Thanks for your help. I'll give it a shot and let you know how it turns out. Thanks.