Re: NFS, symlinks and installation trees

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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rpjday wrote:

>available, via NFS, a red hat installation tree, if i create the
>directory /7.3/RedHat/RPMS containing all the symlinks.  then
>a network-based kickstart client could refer to this host and
>to the location "/7.3", under which it would find the installation
>tree "RedHat/RPMS" to install from.

>pose any possible problems?  i'm assuming i'd have to export the
>entire /7.3 directory since i have to export the locations that
>contain the real files as well as the symlinks.

Yes.  Use relative links, and it should work fine.  For example:

$ pwd 
/path/to/7.3

$ cd rpms
$ for file in ../dist*/rpms/*; do ln -s $file; done

Something like that, with 7.3/ exported.

- -d


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David Talkington

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