RedHat 7 NFS installation problems

Please help.

I run a few computers in a network, among others a small one, an old 80486,
with only a diskette and a hard-disk.
It ran Slackware 2.0.34, but that's rather old. I'd like to install RedHat
7.0 and I'm trying to do so by performing a
network install (NFS). My local domain is .prodeo. There are three boxes,
jacob, levi and benjamin. benjamin is the small
one.

On jacob, I made a directory /RH7/RedHat and copied all the stuff from the
two binary CD's /RedHat directories there.

Next, I created an entry in the /etc/exports file, as follows:
/RH7/RedHat/ *.prodeo(rw)

I tried this from levi.prodeo and I am able to mount from there, no
problems.

Now I start benjamin from the netboot.img diskette and configure my eth0.
When asked I specify the ip address for jacob (where the nfs-install
directory is located).

The systems do recognize this action, jacob gives me a console message:
Aug 25 21:15:23 jacob rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
benjamin.prodeo:611 for \
/RH7/RedHat (/RH7/RedHat)

This is the same message as I get from levi with a successful mount.
However, benjamin (in the NFS installation process) gives me a message box
stating:

"I could not mount that directory from the server"

Does anyone know what to do next? I'm out of options...

PapaBear

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In article <bidq8r$85m$1@news>, PapaBear wrote:
> Please help.

I've never installed and do not use Red Hat, so I know little of how its
installer works. For the RH-specific part of this you would do better in
a RH newsgroup or forum.

> I run a few computers in a network, among others a small one, an old 80486,
> with only a diskette and a hard-disk.
> It ran Slackware 2.0.34, but that's rather old. I'd like to install RedHat
> 7.0 and I'm trying to do so by performing a

1. Red Hat 7.0 is old as well, and was generally considered buggy.
2. Why the distro change? Slackware is probably better on a 486. If you
have the room any recent version would be fine. I can't say this
definitively, but I strongly suspect you'd have a harder time
trimming Red Hat 7.0 to fit on a small disk than you would Slackware
9.0 or -current. It's no great feat to get a functional Slackware in
under 100MB; see ZipSlack for proof.

> On jacob, I made a directory /RH7/RedHat and copied all the stuff from the
> two binary CD's /RedHat directories there.

I'll bet this is the problem. You need to find out what directories the
installer expects to find, and where they should be in relation to the
NFS mount point. A Red Hat issue, sorry, no help from me.

> Next, I created an entry in the /etc/exports file, as follows:
> /RH7/RedHat/ *.prodeo(rw)

Why rw? Does the installer need write access? If so what does it do if
installing from CD?

> The systems do recognize this action, jacob gives me a console message:
> Aug 25 21:15:23 jacob rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
> benjamin.prodeo:611 for /RH7/RedHat (/RH7/RedHat)

Yes, this indicates that NFS is working on both the client and the
server.

> Does anyone know what to do next? I'm out of options...

Stay with Slackware.
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> In article <bidq8r$85m$1@news>, PapaBear wrote:
> > Please help.
>
> 2. Why the distro change? Slackware is probably better on a 486. If you
> have the room any recent version would be fine. I can't say this
> definitively, but I strongly suspect you'd have a harder time
> trimming Red Hat 7.0 to fit on a small disk than you would Slackware
> 9.0 or -current. It's no great feat to get a functional Slackware in
> under 100MB; see ZipSlack for proof.

I was kind'a hoping you wouldn't say that. I do not have a fast internet
connection, so obtaining a new Slackware version might be a bit of a
problem, and yes, I agree, trimming RedHat would probably be more work, but
hey, it should work as advertised, or what?

> > On jacob, I made a directory /RH7/RedHat and copied all the stuff from
the
> > two binary CD's /RedHat directories there.
>
> I'll bet this is the problem. You need to find out what directories the
> installer expects to find, and where they should be in relation to the
> NFS mount point. A Red Hat issue, sorry, no help from me.

I definitely followed the installation instructions on this.

> > Next, I created an entry in the /etc/exports file, as follows:
> > /RH7/RedHat/ *.prodeo(rw)
>
> Why rw? Does the installer need write access? If so what does it do if
> installing from CD?

You're right, of course. I being the only user of my network makes me sloppy
sometimes ;>)

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