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To: David Quattlebaum <sasdrq@unx.sas.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS installation mount options? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 15:24:21 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:08:56 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> We want to install via NFS from a local Network Appliance 
> NFS file server. 
> 
> In order for existing FreeBSD systems to mount this file server
> properly we must specify the options: 
> 
>    -d -t 60 
> 
> on the mount_nfs command.
> 
> Is there anyway to specify these mount options when installing 
> via NFS?

Hmmmm.  Not really since mount_nfs isn't on the boot floppy - it's
done internally by sysinstall.  I've never had to override the
timeout values on an install before - what's this NA box doing,
exactly? :)

					Jordan