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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: rshepard@MCS.COM (Robert E. Shepard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install from WFW w/NFSd or FTPd Date: 8 Feb 1996 18:23:32 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 60 Message-ID: <4fe464$6d8@Venus.mcs.com> References: <4f7svc$nav@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2 (KSD)] It may be the WC CDROM. I used PCTCP on my DOS machine, and after booting, found that install could not find the /BIN directory. What I wound up doing, was copying the /BIN files to a directory of the same name, and having that as my root directory for FTP. The install program does not look for /DISTS/BIN/bin.xx. It looks for /BIN/bin.xx. For installing the basic distribution packages, my home FTP directory looks like: /BIN /Floppies /"other dist dirctories" etc... /"other dist directories"etc.. It's a major bummer doing all this work, and the worst part is that so far, I have not found the combination of directories to install the packages yet :) I think a call to Walnut Creek May be in order? BTW, once you do the above, the basic dists install goes VERY well and quickly! :) Jeff Kane (jkane@earth.execpc.com) wrote: : I tried to install 2.1 from CD last night in the following manner. : I ran the Tropic NFS server on a Windows For Workgroups machine and : exported the CDROM. I tried to export each directory in the /dists : structure seperatelly also. I then set up a FTP server on the WFW : machine and allowed any access with no security. In both instances, : the FreeBSD machine connected and tried to get the files. FreeBSD : tried to CWD to "2.1.0-Release". Of course, this failed! Since my : FTP/NFS server uses DOS naming conventions, this fails. : Am I on the right track in thinking it is related to the Rock-Ridge : extentions that are causing my problem? : I know it can be insatlled from a DOS partition, But I want to give : the whole disk to FreeBSD. Is there a way to specify where to look : for the files during a FTP or NFS instead of it just trying a : unknown (to me anyhow) directory structure? My only other alternative : is to try the IDE CDROM driver (ATAPI). SInce this is barely supported, : I would rather not! : Or, is the distribution from Walnut Creek not able to be NFS mounted : and loaded directlly? Must it be locally mounted only? : The best solutiuon would to NFS mount the CD from my WFW server as : needed. My SCSI card on my WFW server is not a supported one. My : other Machine has a Future Domain but I need to open it up to see : if it is a 8xx/900 series or not. I do have both a SB-Pro and a : Pro Audio Spectrum, but no CD-ROMs for either of these! Can't : win either way here. Even if my SCSI is supported, I don't want : to move it to the new box yet. I want to see how well it works : first. : -- : Jeff Kane jkane@execpc.com : Sysop - Home Brew University BBS Brew City Campus 414-238-9074 : Genealogy Search: Brickner, Kane, Kimbro, LaClaire, Snyder|Snider, : Seecs|Seetch|Sich, and Thorton. : Visit my homepage for more ... http://www.execpc.com/~jkane