From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 11:55:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nexprise.com (gw.nexprise.com [206.79.13.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA24537BAD0 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:55:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dthiel@nexprise.com) Received: from lgm-118a.internal.nexprise.com (mx.nexprise.com [192.168.25.222]) by gw.nexprise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08839 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexprise.com (dthiel@ws141.internal.nexprise.com [192.168.25.141]) by lgm-118a.internal.nexprise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA99823 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dthiel@nexprise.com) Message-ID: <39886E6D.452909BA@nexprise.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:54:37 -0700 From: David Thiel Organization: Nexprise Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplicating freebsd installs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doesn't sysinstall have to look for the split files? If I wanted to just make a copy of my system's directory structure under the ftp or nfs directory, would sysinstall pick up on it? Since it asks for particular distrobutions, I imagine it's looking for those particular files. thanks, david > Just mount whatever install media you have over NFS. Set the location of > that media in the install options screen. This is covered in the handbook > as well. > > FTP install is easy too. Setup an FTP server the serves up the install > files. Point to the server from the new box during the install. > > Thank you, > Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message