On 6 Feb 2002, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 13:48, Jima wrote:
> > I also somewhat wonder how efficient read-only NFS would be, compared to
> > FTP/HTTP.
>
> NFS requires at a minimum nfs support in kernel, nfs-utils, portmap. Not
> all machines have this. NFS sucks rancid monkey chunks.
Kernel/utils/everything else support isn't an issue for network
installations; everything needed to make the installing machine an NFS
workstation is (or damn well should be) included in the net install
floppy.
As for the sucking "rancid monkey chunks," what works better for a
networked filesystem?
Jima