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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: A successful installation with CD image
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If you do not have a real CD-ROM around, you can still install FreeBSD
with a CD-ROM image downloaded from www.freebsd.org. In the following
example, I use the FreeBSD 3.3-Release CD-ROM image downloaded from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3.3-install.cd0.
You also need a machine running FreeBSD to follow the following steps:

Step 1: Download boot floppies kern.flp and mfsroot.flp.  They are 
	needed to boot the machine on which I am going to install
	FreeBSD.

Step 2: On the machine already running FreeBSD:

         # vnconfig /dev/vn0c /usr/cd_image/3.3-install.cd0
         # mount -t cd9660 /dev/vn0c /install

	Note the kernel must be configured to support VN device.
	Now you can proceed with either Step 3 or Step 4.

Step 3: FTP installation:

	On the machine to be installed, boot from kern.flp and 
	mfsroot.flp.  Choose FTP install method with a URL as:
	
	fpt://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/install

	Before this use Option on the Installation Media menu to 
        set FTP username as zzhang, password as 12345678.

	On the machine that is already running FreeBSD, you must
	create a username zzhang with password as 12345678 and do 
        the following in advance:

	> mkdir install
	> cd install
	> ln -s /install 3.3-RELEASE

	The FTP istallation is faster than the NFS installation
	described in Step 4.
	
Step 4: NFS installation:

	Add the following line to /etc/exports:

	/install -alldirs xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

	If so, when you mount the CD-ROM image, it will be exported
	automatically (you can umount and mount it again to achieve
	the same effect).

	On the machine to be installed, choose NFS media:

	xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/install

	And you can install FreeBSD over NFS.

-Zhihui




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