An external NFS server in the network providing an NFS share must contain the merged CDs or DVDs of the Linux distribution. Preparation of such a share is not part of OSIM.
For different LINUX distributions, the merged directory can look different. If you are not sure how that works, let createOSImge or the wizard create a complete image and copy the contents to the external NFS server. Consult the documentation of your LINUX distribution.
For example, OS which is delivered on five CDs, the files and directories from the five CDs are merged into one directory that becomes then the NFS share.
The files needs to be merged into the following structure:
susenfs
(This directory becomes the NFS share)
-Boot -Dosutils -Media.1 -Media.2 -Media.3 -Media.4 -Media.5 -Suse
-I586 -I686 -Noach -Setup
Note: The susenfs share and the directories must get read access rights for ANONYMOUS USER.
To tell CreateOSImage that the created OS-image should use an external NFS share and not to copy all files from the CDs into the OS-image, call this command:
CreateOSImage -i<imagename> -o<OS-type> -a <NFS-share-name>.
But even using the –a option, CreateOSImage needs CD1 or "–s <path>" to copy some installation programs from the Linux distribution into the OSIM OS-image.
The given value "–a <image>" is set into the OSImageNFS boot parameter. The parameter OSImageNFS, as well as the address of the NFS Server, BootServerNFS, can be changed later in the DSM Explorer.
BootServerNFS must be set with the address or name of the NFS server providing the OSImageNFS.
The installation of SUSE 10 and 11 OS images is supported using only the extracted folders of ISO image.
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