[lug] Sharing of CD ROM...

[Mr Viggy]

Well, yes, but I thought there was a way to export a CD directly.  I 
guess I'll do that (just trying to learn more new stuff)...

;-)

Viggy

jdavis wrote:
> 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
> jd at taproot.bz
> 
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