Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 85

c Create a symbolic link from the location of the installation sources to the
root directory of the Web server (/srv/www/htdocs):
ln -s /path_instsource /srv/www/htdocs/instsource
d Modify the configuration file of the HTTP server (/etc/apache2/
default-server.conf) to make it follow symbolic links. Replace the
following line:
Options None
with
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
e Reload the HTTP server configuration using rcapache2 reload.
3 Announce the installation source via OpenSLP, if this is supported by your net-
work setup:
a Create a configuration file called install.suse.http.reg under
/etc/slp/reg.d/ that contains the following lines:
# Register the HTTP Installation Server
service:install.suse:http://$HOSTNAME/srv/www/htdocs/instsource/CD1/,en,65535
description=HTTP Installation Source
Replace path_to_instsource with the actual path to the installation
source on your server. The service: line should be entered as one con-
tinuous line.
b Save this configuration file and start the OpenSLP daemon using rcslpd
restart.
4.2.5 Managing an SMB Installation Source
Using SMB, you can import the installation sources from a Microsoft Windows server
and start your Linux deployment even with no Linux machine around.
To set up an exported Windows Share holding your SUSE Linux Enterprise installation
sources, proceed as follows:
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