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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.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: 10 Mar 1996 11:03:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4hucuq$1ca@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <313B1B32.2F1CF0FB@kampai.euronet.nl> <313D0611.15FB7483@freebsd.org> <4hlau6$d95@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31400FBB.446B9B3D@kampai.euronet.nl> 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 Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> writes: > I tried adding the /dists, and left the boot floppy in the drive, > but it still had problems finding the kernel (or whatever it was > that it was looking for) - are you saying that I should have > then placed root.flp in the floppy drive? Yup. sysinstall first tries to get the root floppy via NFS/FTP, and failing this, attempts to read it as a real floppy. This is announced on the screen. -- 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. ;-)