From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 5:48:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-b.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E2615005 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 05:48:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net) Received: from asmodean ([212.25.116.20]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0FKT00EAKYCMV0@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:48:25 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 15:46:08 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: installation from network cdrom To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <016d01bf2926$aa065120$147419d4@asmodean> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 References: <199911070117.UAA33519@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Umm... when he says `network cdrom` I think he means a cdrom on another computer in his network, not how to get the files on the cdrom via ftp :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Crist J. Clark To: mideyon Cc: Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 3:17 AM Subject: Re: installation from network cdrom > mideyon wrote, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD from a network cdrom. I followed > > instructions that were in the booklet that came with the cdrom set but > > it didnt seem to work and i didnt see anything on the webpage. Does > > anyone know how to do this? I tried putting > > ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin. in my /etc/master.passwd file > > but when i try to install it says that it cannot find the directory. > > OK, so you are logging in now. > > IIRC, you have to be able to find the CD at, > > /pub/FreeBSD/3.3-RELEASE > > Once your anonymous use logs in. I can't find the exact instructions > for this in the docs at the moment. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message