Laptop Optical Drive

[Darin Perusich]

most rescue cd's setup your ethernet interface for you so i'm going to 
assume the drivers have been loaded.

	1. ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
	2. /sbin/portmap (without this your done)
	3. mkdir /tmp/nfs
	4. mount xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/nfsmount /tmp/nfs

Cyber Source wrote:
> Also, if one could show how to mount an nfs share with a rescue cd, that 
> would be great as well!
> 
> David Rosonowski wrote:
> 
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I was recently gifted a somewhat functional laptop, but it lacks a
>> functioning optical drive.
>> I have SuSE 9.2 Professional DVDs here, and I want to set up dual boot.
>>
>> I will be purchasing a drive at some point in the near future, but
>> that's not going to be for a few months.... I don't suppose anyone has
>> a laptop DVD-ROM drive that they might let me borrow for a brief
>> period of time to run the install?
>>
>> I also have a second (windows) machine on the network, as well as a
>> floppy drive if these are possible alternate installation routes (the
>> laptop does support network boot).
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>  
>>

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com