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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!shlnews!ottnews!pc058!gbuchanan From: gbuchanan@shl.com (Gardner Buchanan) Subject: Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R) Message-ID: <gbuchanan.5.0140F570@shl.com> Lines: 39 Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Ottawa branch X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] References: <40ul40$n2i@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 05:33:32 GMT mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau) writes: >I've been trying to do an NFS-install of FreeBSD 2.0.5R, >using the Walnut Creek CDROM. The network is working, >and so seems the NFS mount, but when the actual install >is attempted, I get the following error message: >NFS install: >Couldn't get root image from remotehost:/cdrom! >Will try to get it from floppy. >What am I missing? As far as I know, nothing. The root image is not in the dists directory. You have to transfer the root image to a diskette the same way you did for the boot image and feed the install script that diskette when required. This is what I did, and everything worked fine. BTW, I had a very perplexing problem with the NFS installation which when I finally tracked it down turned out to be due to weirdness in the IBM AIX NFS (I think). Basically, if I exported a read-only filesystem (the CD) with a vanilla (ie read-write) exportfs then FreeBSD was unable to mount the directory using a vanilla (read-write) mount. A read-only NFS mount succeeded. Altering the AIX export to read-only fixed this. Also, the AIX "cdrfs" filesystem implementation is badly brain damaged - it does not understand rock-ridge - and installation of additional packages over and above the ones in dists has been very painful for me due to the resulting filename strangeness. Good luck. I have found the effort invested in installing 2.0.5 to be very very worthwhile. --- Gardner Buchanan SHL Systemhouse Inc. Ottawa Branch (613) 236-9734