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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!news.euro.net!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN? Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 19:20:18 +0100 Organization: Kampai Lines: 27 Message-ID: <313DD762.2781E494@kampai.euronet.nl> References: <313B1B32.2F1CF0FB@kampai.euronet.nl> <4hk88h$7u6@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p323.asd.euronet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) Jeff Kane wrote: > > Gary Howland (gary@kampai.euronet.nl) wrote: > > : I've been trying, without success, to install FreeBSD 2.1 over > : our LAN. I have the FreeBSD 2.1 CD mounted and available via > : both anonymous ftp and NFS from our server. However, both the > : ftp and NFS methods fail. Am I trying to do something that > : the CD was not "designed" to do? Is it really going to be easier > : for me to install a CD drive in the target machines than to > : install from the LAN? > > What kind of server?? I was using another FreeBSD server, but it seems I wasn't using the correct NFS path (doesn't explain why the ftp version didn't work though). Anyway, I ended up moving the CDROM-drive. Next time I'll try harder! Thanks for the help. Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06