From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 02:49:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00830 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00810 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:49:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA24740; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:48:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <369B2103.35AAF3CB@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:16:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen CC: John Hay , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't References: <199901111058.MAA00994@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za.newsgate.clinet.fi> <867lusga6v.fsf@not.oeno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > Given a CD and a bunch of machines, some without CD-ROMs, the > simplest way to install the machines without CD-ROMs would seem to > be mounting the cd on a machine that can, adding /cdrom -ro to > /etc/exports and installing over NFS. Of course there are the > little bits of work necessary to activate NFS, but starting the > daemons (or SIGHUPing mountd if they're already up) is not hard. I guess it comes down to which is simpler: setting up an ftp for the cdrom, or an nfs. If people don't have experience with nfs, then it becomes much more of a difference, as nfs documentation is not entirely clear, and a little bit scary. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message