Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 80

3 Announce the installation source via OpenSLP, if this is supported by your net-
4.2.4 Setting Up an HTTP Installation Source
Creating an HTTP installation source is very similar to creating an NFS installation
source. HTTP installation sources can be announced over the network using OpenSLP
as well.
1 Create a directory holding the installation sources as described in Section 4.2.2,
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2d Mount the contents of the installation repository into the change root envi-
ronment of the FTP server:
mount --bind path_to_instsource /srv/ftp/instsource
Replace path_to_instsource and instsource with values matching
your setup. If you need to make this permanent, add it to /etc/fstab.
2e Start vsftpd with vsftpd.
work setup:
3a Create a configuration file called install.suse.ftp.reg under /etc/
slp.reg.d/ that contains the following lines:
# Register the FTP Installation Server
service:install.suse:ftp://$HOSTNAME/instsource/CD1,en,65535
description=FTP Installation Source
Replace instsource with the actual name to the installation source direc-
tory on your server. The service: line should be entered as one continuous
line.
3b Save this configuration file and start the OpenSLP daemon with rcslpd
start.
Manually
"Setting Up an NFS Installation Source Manually" (page 58).