From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 9 17:36:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA21129 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:36:14 -0800 Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA21113 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:35:58 -0800 Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA27714; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:40:14 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:40:11 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: installation from CD for 2.1.0 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am wondering if installing from a CD in/on a different machine than what you are installing on will be better... so you have the CD in another machine the is avaliable through ftp/nfs and the installing machine brings it off over the net... basicly I think the problem stemmed from having the floppies in the parent of the distributions instead of the distributions... so it wouldn't be able to find the root file system... Thanks for such a great OS... TTYL.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) GCS/M/Sd#h+s+!gau-a--w++++vC+++++UF++++P---E---N++W---M--V--Y+t+5++G+b+D++ B----eu+h++!f++n---- CD5OUF++++.L-------2W.DM----N.9---NET2SP3s.2,4s.,4d.2,6---