Installing to an NFS-Mounted Filesystem

To install the Sun Studio software on an NFS-mounted filesystem, you must run the installer on a supported system regardless of where the NFS partition is mounted. In the following procedure, the server is the machine with the physical disk on which the installed software will reside, and the client is the machine on which you run the installer and which NFS-mounts the filesystem from the server.

The best way to share the product image as an NFS-mounted filesystem is to export it from a supported system. Run the installer on the server and share the directory in which the software is installed. Use the following NFS install procedure only if your NFS server is not a supported platform for the product.

After mounting the filesystem you can install the Sun Studio product on the server by running the graphical user interface installer, command-line installer, or batch installer on the client machine . You would specify the directory on which you mounted the filesystem as the installation directory for the Sun Studio 12 software.

After you have installed the software, any machine that is running version 9, or 10 1/06 of the Solaris OS can mount the filesystem from the server on which you installed the software, and run the software. Each client machine that runs the software must have the correct prerequisite software installed (see Checking For and Installing Software Prerequisites.

To uninstall Sun Studio software installed on an NFS-mounted filesystem, you must run the uninstaller on the same client machine you used to install the software, and you must mount the filesystem prior to running the uninstaller.

To Prepare for Installing the Sun Studio Software on an NFS-mounted Filesystem

1. On the server machine, share the filesystem with the appropriate options. It is essential that root on the client machine on which the installer will be run have full access to the NFS filesystem:

   share -F nfs -o root=client-machine,rw filesystem

2. On the client machine, mount the shared filesystem with read/write access:

   mount server-machine:filesystem installation-directory