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I have succesfully exported my home directory to my local machine using control center. The settings are identical to those for /mnt/cdrom export except that /mnt/cdrom is moutned read only. Does this mean that I can only do a network install if I have copied the files onto my hard drive? I'm not sure that I have space for this - is there way of cutting down the files that I need to copy? (e.g. I probably don't need all the interantionalisation files as I only speak english)

AAAAARRRRGGGHHH! Whatever combination of options I try in webmin gets me nowhere! I have tried changing the permissions for /mnt/cdrom (I can't do anything on the machine I'm exporting to as I have no shell there) Earlier I said that I had tried to see if it worked via the control center - I scanned for servers and saw /mnt/cdrom available but did not try to mount as I didn't need it mounted twice on one machine! I have, however, since tried to mount and failed (permission denied again). I am restarting nfs after every change I make and nothing. This computer is useless to me unless I can install on it and I would really like to get 9.0 on it. Someone please help!

I assume by mountpoint you mean my cdrom drive? I cannot make this writeable as it is a cd - should I make it readable by all users?

Here is my /etc/hosts file: 192.168.1.1 kirstine.lombok.org.uk kirstine 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 kirstine.lombok.org.uk kirstine 192.168.0.5 server.lombok.org.uk server kirstine is my main machine - the one from which I am exporting the cd drive. server is the machine I want to export to. I have no idea why I have two ips for this - I can only assume that it's left over from previous network tweakings I may have done. It may also be a previous ip for eth0 which points to the internet. eth0 is protected via a firewall and is not accessible from the server machine unless the firewall is switched off - so it is unlikely that it is interfering. I seem to be able to access kirstine from server as it is getting a permission denied - I assume it had to contact the nfs server for it to deny permission?

The ip for the internet network adapter is not one of those I listed earlier - it appears that my lan card has two ips. I have already tried scanning in control centre and it works - so it seems that the nfs server is ok. I cannot check any /etc/hosts file on the recieving machine as, whilst it does have a basic boot, there is no shell or any thing except a wizard that walks you thourgh the setup. You can view the logs or the kernel output, but that is it. The rubbish thing is that there son't seem to be any real docs for performing a network install

I tried again this morning and used the ip address for my exporting machine - 192.168.0.1 I looked at the logs and saw that it said permission denied for the NFS server. As advised, I used webmin to export my cdrom to every one - my /etc/exports now looks like: /mnt/cdrom (ro,insecure,no_root_squash) I am setting the ip of the new machine to 192.168.0.5, I set the gateway and dns to the ip of the exporting machine. Any ideas as to why I'm getting refused?

Ok - slightly odd results. I did what you said and noticed that my main machine has two ip addresses (other than the 127.0.0.1 & the internet one): 192,168.0.1 & 192.168.1.1 I tried both. The first (which is what I'd been using before) gave the same results. The second got a bit further in that in never got refused fro mthe NFS server (I checked the logs) but neither did it seem to establish a mount. It also tied up both my Network cards - both the internal network one & also my internet one completetly. Why would it behave like that?

Ok, thanks. I'll give that a try and let you know how I got on

What kind of things could be causing this problem? I don't mind spending a reasonable amount of time figuring it all out, but I really don't have any clue what else I can do at this stage. With the network install, I have been entering the ip address of the machine exporting /mnt/cdrom via NFS and "/mnt/cdrom" as the location of the Install - is this correct?

I switched off the firewall ( why didn't I think of that!? ) but it still doesn't work. I can ping to the new machine - but I don't know how to ping from it as there is no shell to work with. I am using a floppy with the 9.0 network.img on it. I have tried exporting using ip address and domain name - but neither makes any difference. I am confident that the new machine is properly on the network - mainly because I can ping it, but I don't understand why I can't see the NFS server or, at least, why I can't mount from it.

I am attempting a network install of Mandrake Linux 9.0 on a machine without a cdrom drive, but with a network card. I a lready one desktop running linux which will host the install files. I have exported my /mnt/cdrom using NFS on the existing installation. This appears to work since I can view those mounts in the control center. The machine waiting for an install, fails to mount the cdrom however ( I have also tried to export my home directory as an experiment with exactly the same results.) I am using the ip address of the existing instalation and "/mnt/cdrom" to point to the location of the install cd - bu it always fails. Any advice? I did find an article on the internet about copying your cds in a directory called /nfscd, but I don't have enough hard disc space so I'm hoping I don't have to do that.

Thanks Yin Yeti, that's very helpful. Does anyone know how I am supposed to share my CD drive over the network?

I have looked a little on the internet for answers to this question and a few pages seem to suggest that it is possible, but you download all the files as they are required. I have CDs for 8.2 & 9.0 - can I install from them over a network? If not, any tips on a network install would be helpful Also what is the minimum memory requirement to run X? I read that 32Mb is only good for a text install - which is fine, but could I run X with something like blackbox after install if I only had 32Mb

I am considering buying a low spec pc to act as a router for my LAN at home. The problem is that while I have found a pc that is well within my budget, it has no CD-ROM drive. Is it possible to install Mandrake via a network? I have not yet decided whether put 9.0 or 8.2 on, since this will be an important server. The machine does have a floppy drive

I had a similar problem and now I use firestarter instead of shorewall. If you go with firestarter or similar you will have to turn shorewall and internet connection sharing off. Firestarter is capable of ip masquerading, so it can share your internet connection for you.

Glad to be of help :D

This is a reset palm - there is no data on it really (just a couple of unimportant memos). Al of my pim data is in evolution and I want it on the palm

I have compared by backed up smb.conf ( the one I edited manually) and the one in /etc/samba and they are totally different, which leads me to believe that the one in use is written by the wizard. Now, however, I am confused - if the file in /etc/samba/ is written by the wizard - why do I lose the results of it when I restart my computer? Samba seems to be running. If I simply restart samba - it works. Why isn't samba starting properly when I restart my computer?

I do have webmin installed and I'll take a look at it too see if it'll be easy to achieve the results I need. The only reason I've been at all bothered about the wizard is simply that, for the first time, I've easily got the results I've wanted. Any attempt to use SWAT or directly edit smb.conf has resulted in imperfect results - useable, but not brilliant

Ok, I have achieved a painless sync - at least the palm seemed to think it had synced although I couldn't see anything added to the palm at all (there was nothing really on the palm to copy across) Anyone had this happen?

Progress - I have succesfully performed a sync with my linux box, where gnome pilot was able to retrieve the username from my palm. Since then, every attempt to sync has failed! AAARRRGGGHHH! It sometimes gets as far as indentifying the user, but so far has never got beyond that. Anyone have any pearls of wisdom here? This is getting VERY frustrating. The whole reason I got this palm is because, apparently, palm can sync with linux - in particular Evolution

OK, I have tested the cradle with another computer and it is fine. I have succesfully added a user to the palm from windows, but I am still having problems performing a first sync from my linux box - are there any issues that I should be aware of, or any tips. This is a palm Vx running palm OS 3.5.3 - anyone else managed to get that to work?

:) I think you may have it...

What happened when you tried to run Xtart? You should simply need to enter Xtart at the prompt and then select from your installed WMs

The way I upgraded Evolution was simply to download the mandrake cooker rpm from rpmfind.net The first time I tried to install it I was told of some missing dependencies, so I downloaded those from rpmfind.net as well. once I had everything, it installed perfectly - whole thing took about 15 minutes. I'm a bit shy about using red carpet myself, last time I tried that, it played with some of my settings - nothing disasterous, but I didn't like it.