Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 82

If you prefer manually exporting the installation sources via NFS instead of using the
YaST NFS Server module, proceed as follows:
1 Log in as root.
2 Open the file /etc/exports and enter the following line:
3 To add the NFS service to the list of servers started during system boot, execute
4 Start the NFS server with rcnfsserver start. If you need to change the
Announcing the NFS server via OpenSLP makes its address known to all clients in
your network.
1 Log in as root.
2 Enter the directory /etc/slp.reg.d/.
3 Create a configuration file called install.suse.nfs.reg containing the
4 Save this configuration file and start the OpenSLP daemon with rcslpd start.
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/productversion *(ro,root_squash,sync)
This exports the directory /productversion to any host that is part of this
network or to any host that can connect to this server. To limit the access to this
server, use netmasks or domain names instead of the general wild card *. Refer
to the export man page for details. Save and exit this configuration file.
the following commands:
insserv /etc/init.d/nfsserver
insserv /etc/init.d/portmap
configuration of your NFS server later, modify the configuration file and restart
the NFS daemon with rcnfsserver restart.
following lines:
# Register the NFS Installation Server
service:install.suse:nfs://$HOSTNAME/path_instsource/CD1,en,65535
description=NFS Installation Source
Replace path_instsource with the actual path to the installation source on
your server.