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4.5 Using a RIS Area Mounted on NFS
You can use an NFS mount point to install software from an extracted RIS
area on another system or from an operating system distribution CD−ROM
mounted on another system. You can use this method to create an extracted
RIS area with the base operating system subsets.
_____________________ Caution _____________________
The information in this section can be used only if you are
installing software on a client after you install the operating
system software.
For example, if a system named chicago has a CD−ROM containing the
operating system subsets mounted on /mnt and listed in its /etc/exports
file, the system administrator on newyork can use mount that CD−ROM
with a command similar to the following example:
NYroot# mount chicago:/mnt/ALPHA/BASE /mnt
After chicago is mounted, the newyork system administrator can use the
ris utility to install software from the CD-ROM as if it were local to the
newyork system.
If another system exports an extracted RIS area with the subsets you need
on a local system, you can create an extracted RIS area from the remote RIS
area. For example, if a system named seattle has the operating system
subsets in its ris0.alpha product environment, the system administrator
on newyork can NFS mount that product environment with the following
command:
NYroot# mount seattle:/var/adm/ris/ris0.alpha /mnt
After the remote product environment is mounted, the system administrator
for newyork can use the ris utility to install software from it as if it were
local to newyork.
4.6 Modifying the /etc/exports File
RIS client installations of the base operating system prior to this version rely
on files located in the server’s /var/adm/ris/risN.arch/kit directories.
The RIS server must export these directories.
For this version of the operating system base product, the
/var/adm/ris/risN.arch/product_1 product directory that is exported
contains the distribution image. In this directory path, N is the number of
the RIS area and arch is the architecture of the client systems that the
area serves.
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