Re: The automounter (AMD) is missing from RH-7

[jensen Adobe COM (Freddy Jensen)]

   >From: Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
   >Date: Tue Oct 3 2000 10:18am
   >To:   guinness-list@redhat.com
   >Cc: jensen
   >Subj: Re: The automounter (AMD) is missing from RH-7
   >
   >Freddy Jensen wrote:
   >> 
   >> I just installed Redhat-7 and found to my surprise that
   >> the automounter (AMD) is not there. What happened?
   >> 
   >> I just got the AMD configuration nailed down with Redhat 6.2.
   >> 
   >> Was AMD replaced by something else?
   >
   >yes. the Berkley automounter was finally droped
   >in favour of the kernel autofs system. It's
   >been in all the 2.2.x kernels. You can sitl get
   >the older amd though. Grab the RHL 6.2 srpm
   >am build it with the 7.0 libraries and it should work.
   >Or learn the autofs configuration.
   >
   >Check 'man 5 autofs' and 'man auto.master' for details.
   >
   >	-Thomas

Ok. Thanks.

For some reason autofs was not installed, even when I selected
all packages. There were no manpages and not *autofs* files in
/etc. I found it on CD-2 and installed it like this:

Login as root
Insert cdrom-2
mount /mnt/cdrom
ls -alF  /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/autofs-3.1.5-5.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/autofs-3.1.5-5.i386.rpm
umount /mnt/cdrom

Now the manpage is there and the *autofs* files are in /etc.

On to figuring out how to hook autofs into our NFS environment.

I am curious why autofs was not available during the installation?

I wonder if there are other useful things that the installation
didn't tell me about?

Thanks

Freddy