[Wolves] NFS server

[David Goodwin]

Simon Burke wrote:
> Ok, I bought myself an extra 300Gb or so of storage from the computer
> market on sunday.
> 
> Quick question, I have a machine, i took out the CD-rom drive so i can
> max it out with hard-drives. All are blank though i can pre-format
> them.
> I could net-install debian etc but i have only one or two floppies.
> Is it possible to get one of the ' *nix on a floppy' things to run as
> a NFS server, if not then I've have to net install something,
> 
> Thanks,
> SimonB
> 

Why not plug the cdrom drive in to do the install, and install onto one 
hard disk (e.g. /dev/hda).

Once it's up and running, swap the cdrom for one of the other hard 
disks. I would imagine you want the 3 spare disks to be seperate 
filesystems (perhaps /home, /pr0n and /warez ;) ? ), so when you come 
around to reinstalling your distro at a later date your data isn't lost etc.


You can get pci cards which act as IDE controllers, allowing you to plug 
more disks in at sometime in the future.


David.

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