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From: jkane@earth.execpc.com (Jeff Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Install from WFW w/NFSd or FTPd
Date: 6 Feb 1996 15:43:40 GMT
Organization: Exec-PC
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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.
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