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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.linfield.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN? Date: 7 Mar 1996 00:34:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4hlau6$d95@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <313B1B32.2F1CF0FB@kampai.euronet.nl> <313D0611.15FB7483@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Gary Howland 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 > > The NFS method should work fine, and it's how I've installed several > FreeBSD 2.1 systems. I've noticed that the filesystem layout on the CDROM and on the suggested FTP server are slightly different. There's one more subdirectory layer on the FTP server. You could work around this by making a separate floppy image of the ``root.flp'', and using the NFS/FTP path that ends up in ``/dists''. The installation program won't find root.flp (since the ``floppies'' directory is actually one directory level higher on the CD), but it will then try to fetch it from a floppy. This is your chance. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)