Laptop Optical Drive

[Cyber Source]

I will give those a shot and let you know how we fare. Thanks

Darin Perusich wrote:

> 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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