Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:22:48 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing from local network FTP server Message-ID: <92533.1012767768@monkeys.com>
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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
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