Bug 5635 – NFS support on boot CD

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Pau Oliva 2002-07-26 22:19:33 UTC]

It would be great to have NFS-client support on boot cd, so you can mount 
/usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/ packages from other machine. This 
way you can save a lot of time compiling and downloading, because you can 
use your existing .tbz2 files in the other machine and your distfiles in 
case you need to download anything, and also you can save a lot of disk 
space on the client machine.

Adding this functionality to the boot CD its about 20k I think... that is 
not going to affect the size of the cd so much.

I can provide two real examples where this would be very helpful:

* Situation one:
-Server K6-II 500 (gentoo linux installed, --makepkg used in emerge)
-Laptop K6-II 400 (disk empty, going to install gentoo linux)
Notice both have same arch, so they have same compiler flags in make.conf 
and also I use the same USE variable in them.
You can just boot from cd in your laptop, mount 
server:/usr/portage/distfiles and server:/usr/portage/packages when 
installing and put EMERGEOPTS="--usepkg" in your make.conf
This will save:
 - disk space on laptop
 - time compiling on laptop (all system packages are already compiled in 
the server)

* Situation two:
-Server K6-II 500 (gentoo linux installed, --makepkg used in emerge)
-Workstation: Old SparcStation 4 (with only 1Gb HD) where I'm going to 
install gentoo-sparc.
As I only have 1 Gb of disk, It would be very nice to mount distfiles via 
NFS here, so I can use the whole disk for gentoo.


So, that's why I'm requesting this feature on the install CD. I think that 
would be useful for other people too, specially when installing gentoo on 
more than one single machine.


--
Sorry for my bad english, but better than if it was in spanish I think ;)

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-08-02 02:46:23 UTC]

dup to #3704

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2002-08-02 21:43:16 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3704 ***

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:23:59 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.