I have set up an NFS server to do installs over the network but have a problem the installation dosn't complete, the error I get when its almost done down to the last 60 or 70 rpms, something like cannot open the XXXXX.rpm file may be corrupted, if this installation is from a cd then the media may be corrupted, some thing like that.

anyways I think perhaps has to do with way I set up the directory
3 CDs all in one Dir..... perhaps I need 3 directories? e.g.
#/etc/exports
/mnt/rhat 192.168.1.254(ro,sync)

when I created the dir rhat I copied the rpms in the directory as so

# mount /mnt/cdrom
# cp -var /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /mnt/rhat
then did this for each cd but put all in the same dir so of course I got this message
# warning TRANS.TBL already exists do you wish to overwrite?(y/n)

I typed n for no, but I'm thinking now that was it, so i'm wondering should I make 3 dirs inside the rhat dir e.g. disc1, disc2, disc3 and if so would the installation program descend into each directory? or do I need to make symbolic links? :?

any help would be greatly appreciated

Did you check the most obvious? The corruptness of any of the rpm packages (*just* check the md5sum)

in case you don't know how, run for each MD5SUMs file: 'md5sum -c MD5SUM_FILE | grep -v OK' in the directory with the rpms. That should tell you if you have any corrupted package

I redid the install tree as I did the first time, this time saying YES to overwrite TRANS.TBL and it worked

so I guess that was it

thanks anyways