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  1:20pm
   >To:   guinness-list@redhat.com
   >Subj: Re: The automounter (AMD) is missing from RH-7
   >
   >Freddy Jensen wrote:
   >> 
   >> 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:
   >
   >> On to figuring out how to hook autofs into our NFS environment.
   >
   >If you have lot's of system, you'll probably want to use
   >NIS (yp) maps. Then you have one place to make updates
   >for all the systems. I use a mix, since some of the Sun formats
   >aren't supported (yet?)
   >
   >The RedHat initscript automaticall checks for auto.master
   >in the NIS tables, so you don't even need files
   >in /etc for the other systems.
   >

We currently don't have auto.master in the NIS tables. We have
amd.disks which all our amd clients use. I tried to direct autofs
to amd.disks but it did not work. I suspect amd.disks has a format
that is not compatible with autofs.

   >> I am curious why autofs was not available during the installation?
   >
   >It was. It installed fine on my system.
   >How did you do the install?
   >Did it install anything from CD2?
   >

I installed everything from CD-1. Nothing from CD-2.

I wasn't sure how to install from CD-2 after the base install
from cd-1 had finished. How do I do that?

Insert CD-2, and then type what command?

Thanks

Freddy