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From: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject: Re: Installing FBSD 2.1: FTP & CDROM at the same time
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:26:58 -0800
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:17:35 GMT
>>>>> "jkh" == "Jordan K Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
jkh> If you use NFS (export /cdrom from the other system) then all will work
jkh> well. I've been using this technique to install multiple FreeBSD
jkh> systems from a single CD for awhile. Really embarassing about the FTP
jkh> install though. Sigh! Needless to say, I'll fix this in the next
jkh> release.
Well...from the subject I thought this was going to ask something that I
keep forgetting to ask. What about the possibility of specifying multiple
distribution sources? For instance, I'd like to install everything on my
system at work from CD (as it's really the easiest/fastest way), but I
need DES install to interoperate with my site's NIS setup. Since DES
isn't on the CD, I have to pull that off of an FTP site. It'd be nice to
specify a list of places to look so that if something isn't present on one
(or if an FTP site is too busy or ...), the install process will continue
to the next.
Is something like that on the list of niceties for "sysinstall II" (or was
it "setup" or something like that)?
Thanx,
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Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
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