Operation Manual
# Register the NFS Installation Server
service:install.suse:nfs://$HOSTNAME/path_to_repository/DVD1,en,65535
description=NFS Repository
Replace path_to_repository with the actual path to the installation source
on your server.
3
Start the OpenSLP daemon with rcslpd start.
For more information about OpenSLP, refer to the package documentation located under
/usr/share/doc/packages/openslp/ or refer to Chapter 22, SLP Services
in the Network (page 369). More Information about NFS, refer to Chapter 26, Sharing
File Systems with NFS (page 417).
1.2.3 Setting Up an FTP Repository Manually
Creating an FTP repository is very similar to creating an NFS repository. An FTP
repository can be announced over the network using OpenSLP as well.
1
Create a directory holding the installation sources as described in Section 1.2.2,
“Setting Up an NFS Repository Manually” (page 14).
2
Congure the FTP server to distribute the contents of your installation directory:
2a
Log in as root and install the package vsftpd using the YaST software
management.
2b
Enter the FTP server root directory:
cd /srv/ftp
2c
Create a subdirectory holding the installation sources in the FTP root direc-
tory:
mkdir repository
Replace repository with the product name.
2d
Mount the contents of the installation repository into the change root envi-
ronment of the FTP server:
mount --bind path_to_repository /srv/ftp/repository
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