Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 08:44:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP / CD install? Message-ID: <199604070644.IAA27886@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <m0u5nBY-0008tOC@agora.rdrop.com>
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> > I have a somewhat elderly PC (no CDROM) that I'd like to put FreeBSD on. > I can put the PC on the same ethernet that my 'real' PC is on, so I can > do a ftp or NFS install. My immediate preference is for ftp, because I'm > familiar with that, and I've never setup a NFS system before. (Yes, I know > that NFS would probably be better, but my comfort level with that is > rather low. If you could explain how to do it for an NFS newbie, go ahead, > but that's not necessarily the point here). > > I can mount the WC CD in my 'real' PC, and install off that, but the > directory structure of the CD is somewhat different from the directory > structure of an ftp distribution site. I'd appreciate any advice about > what symlinks (or whatever) would be required on my 'real' system to get > the system installed on the old clunker. No problem. mount the CD on the remote PC, e.g. mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt export /mnt (/etc/exports) choose NFS installation method during the install phase on your install PC. You can specify u.v.w.x:/mnt as the NFS path to mount and go ahead. > > Thanks. > > --Gary Hanson > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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