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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN?
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 03:45:18 GMT
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Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> wrote:
>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!
One 'gotcha' with the ftp install is that the URL needs a trailing slash:
ftp://my-server.somewhere.com//cdrom/
^^^
which is so easy to leave out. Also, the install seems as if it was supposed
to cope with this, since it succeeds in fetching the root image with the slash
missing, only to fail on bin/bin.aa.
The "//" in the middle is easy to forget too.