From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 13: 0:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mishkei.org.il (mail.mishkei.org.il [212.116.161.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EF937B400 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:00:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp-251 (212.116.170.38.knet.co.il [212.116.170.38]) by mail.mishkei.org.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA15681; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:59:49 +0200 (IST) Subject: Re: Installing from local network FTP server From: Gilad Rom To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: <92533.1012767768@monkeys.com> References: <92533.1012767768@monkeys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 03 Feb 2002 22:59:22 +0000 Message-Id: <1012777172.247.5.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, All you have to do is download the entire '/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE' directory from your favorite FreeBSD FTP Mirror, and put it under (example, replace with anything appropriate) /usr/local/FreeBSD. Now, point all clients running sysinstall to it, by specifying a custom FTP server, like so: ftp://youruser:yourpass@your.ftp.server/usr/local/FreeBSD/ and Viola! You have your own 4.5-RELEASE mirror to install. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used sysinstall in a while ;) Hope this helps, Gilad. On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 20:22, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > I have several machines on my local network that I would like to > do fresh installs of 4.5-RELEASE onto. > > I _do not_ have a CD of 4.5-RELEASE, but I _do_ have ftp access, > so obviously, I can fetch the relevant files from one of the > FreeBSD ftp sites. > > I also _do not_ have a CD burner. > > I want to put a copy of 4.5-RELEASE onto one of the machines on > my local network, and then simply do the installs onto the other > machines via FTP from the machine where I have placed the (local) > copy of 4.5-RELEASE. > > Problem: I don't actually know how to do this, and the Handbook[tm] > (Section 2.13.1) only provides instructions for how to do this in > the case where one _does_ have a pre-made CD-ROM copy of the > distribution that can be mounted onto the FTP source machine. > > I _do not_ have 4.5-RELEASE on a CD, so I would appreciate it if > some kind soul would fill in the blanks for me. (Maybe I should > just be able to intutively figure out how to do what I want to do > from the instructions detailing how it should be done when you have > the release on a CD, but I'm sorry, I can't.) > > Question: What exactly should I suck down from the official FreBSD > FTP site(s)? Should I suck down the ISO CD-ROM image of 4.5-RELEASE? > Or should I suck down something else? If something else, what else, > and where is that something else located on the FreeBSD FTP servers? > (Note that I'd like to conserve bandwidth, so if there is a choice > between sucking down compressed stuff versus uncompressed stuff, I > would prefer the former.) > > Question: Once I suck down whatever it is that I should suck down, > do I need to unpack and/or uncompress it in preparation for actually > doing the installs onto the other machines from my own local FTP > server? > > 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