From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 13: 3: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5365B1561D for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA22164; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: "Robert M. Luedtke" , freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install over networked computers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Robert M. Luedtke wrote: > > > > > I have a FreeBSD 2.2.8 system running on a Pentium II Compaq Presario with a > > > DVD-ROM drive. I have an old AST machine (Pentium 100MHz) without a CD-ROM > > > drive. They both have ethernet cards. I can network them together and > > > pinging shows that they are communicating with each other. I looked in the > > > installation FAQs looking for a way to install FreeBSD on the AST machine > > > over this intranet using the DVD-ROM drive of the Compaq for the > > > installation CD. I couldn't find anything. This is probably well covered > > > somewhere in the docs and I'm just over looking it. Any help, suggestions, > > > guidance, etc. would we very appreciated. > > > > Export the cdrom via NFS and install over nfs, or provide > > ftp access to the mounted cdrom and do an ftp instal via specific > > URL. > > Is it possible to install from a cdrom image by using vnconfig, > mount_cd9660 and then NFS export it? I tried this today and failed. I don't see why not, perhaps you can explain where it failed? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message