[lug] Sharing of CD ROM...

[jdavis]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 15:13, Mr Viggy wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> It looks like I have HFS working between two machines.  One is my 
> laptop, running Slackware, the other is a "work in progress" that I 
> booted from Slackware "network" disks.  I can mount exported files on 
> the floppy booted machine, but I can't see the cdrom.  Is there a trick 
> to share out a CD-ROM?
> 
> The problem:  I have an old 233MHz P2-MMX machine that I want to turn 
> into a firewall/router for my DSL connection.  The CD drive is an OLD 
> quad speed that will not read CD-R's.  So, it won't read my Slackware 
> install CDROM.  I figured I could do an NFS install, but I can't seem to 
> get the re-build machine to see the CD on the laptop.
> 
> Viggy
> 

can you just copy all the pkgs in to a dir and export it...then
point install scrip at dir with pkgs ?


jd
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