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

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Freddy Jensen wrote:
> 
>    >From: Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
>    >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.

It's a different format for sure.
If you send me a sample from it
(ypcat -k amd.disks ) I can help you
translate it.

> 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?

The installer asked for the second CD during the install, then installed
packeges from it. Did you use the installer? GUI or text?
What options did you choose? Server/workstation/custom?
I think it's part of the networked workstation set.

	-Thomas