From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 29 06:22:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA24130 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 06:22:46 -0700 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA24124 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 06:22:45 -0700 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA12478 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 06:23:49 -0700 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R2.01/dg-rtp-v02) id AA26402; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 09:22:07 -0400 Received: (rivers@localhost) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) id IAA03441 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.cdrom.com; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:25:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:25:02 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199506291225.IAA03441@ponds.UUCP> To: freebsd-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Another 2.0.5-RELEASE installation problem. Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well - I have discovered something else "missing" from the 2.0.5-RELEASE installation, and have some suggestions. First a scenario. 1) I grabbed the 2.0.5-RELEASE distribution from freefall, and simply copied it onto a CD, just as it sat on freefall. 2) I then tried to do an install from this, but the CD-ROM installation wanted the distribution files to be in the "dist" subdirectory, which, of course, mine weren't since it was a copy of freefall. (Perhaps some instructions for this would be nice...) 3) I then thought "What about this 'mounted file system' option" and went to try that, thinking "I'll just mount my CD, and do the installation there." Unfortunately, there is no way to specify how/where to mount the file system, or to specify which mounted file system. If we assume /mnt, then there at least needs to be a dialogue that asks for the mount parameters and device (in my case, '-t cd9660' and '/dev/cd0a') Fortunately, I have several machines at home, and was able to simply move my SCSI CD-ROM to another 2.0 machine, mount the CD and do an install from NFS over ethernet... but most people will probably not be in this situation (or maybe they would be if they're doing such esoteric installs.) - Thanks - - Dave Rivers -