Problems installing Slackware 10.2 with NFS

krazykatt Unlike Redhat, the Slackware installer can not use ISO images that it finds at the NFS mount. You will have to unpack the CD1 and CD2 because these contain the packages to install.The Slackware installer will look for a directory that contains the a, ap, d, ..... package directories.

You can use loopmounts and unionfs if you don't want to waste disk space on copying the contents of the ISOs.

I usually do these three commands (the path names will be different in your case):

mount -o loopisos-slackware-10.2-install-d1.isomnt-sw10.2.cd1

mount -o loopisos-slackware-10.2-install-d2.isomnt-sw10.2.cd2

mount -t unionfs -o dirs=-mnt-sw10.2.cd1=ro:-mnt-sw10.2.cd2=ro nonelive-slackware-10.2

It results in a directorylive-slackware-10.2 where the "merged contents" of CD1 and CD2 are available to you. This directory can then be exported through NFS. This will only work with recent distributions where you can use "fsid" option in the exports file. For instance, theetc-exports should have aline like this:

live-slackware-10.2 *(ro,fsid=42,async,insecure,allsquash)

You can find a package for unionfs at SlackBuild to build your own if a package is not available for your kernel.

Cheers, Eric