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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Remote CD-ROM install ( was Re: More Questions Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R))
Date: 20 Aug 1995 18:22:03 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <417ugb$8iq@helena.MT.net>
References: <40ul40$n2i@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <412m9h$g9v@newshost.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <412m9h$g9v@newshost.lanl.gov>,
Charlie Sorsby <crs@beta.lanl.gov> wrote:
>Speaking of NFS install...
>
>Should I be able to do that with a CDROM drive on a Sun?  That is
>to say, I have a small network of Suns, one of which has Sun's
>CDROM drive.  Should I be able to connect a PC to that ethernet and
>install FreeBSD from that CDROM drive?

As a matter of fact, I installed FreeBSD last week doing that 2
different ways.   The first machine had a supported ethernet card, so I
pointed it at the SUN after setting anon. ftp to the mounted CD.  Then,
I exported the CD from the sun to the newly installed FreeBSD PC a
couple days later via NFS.  I then installed FreeBSD on a laptop connected
to a FreeBSD PC via the parallel cable using the NFS-mounted CD from the
Sun.  Worked like a champ.

>For that matter, should I be able to do anything with the contents
>of the CDROM (Walnut Creek) from that drive irrespective of the
>answer to the previous question?  E.g. should I be able to read the
>FAQs by mounting the CDROM on the Sun?  Transfer the stuff to the
>boot floppy or boot the PC off the CDROM or something like that?  Etc.


Why not?  That's how I built the original boot floppy.



Nate
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