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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
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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
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