Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:16:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> Cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't Message-ID: <369B2103.35AAF3CB@newsguy.com> References: <199901111058.MAA00994@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za.newsgate.clinet.fi> <867lusga6v.fsf@not.oeno.com>
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Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > Given a CD and a bunch of machines, some without CD-ROMs, the > simplest way to install the machines without CD-ROMs would seem to > be mounting the cd on a machine that can, adding /cdrom -ro to > /etc/exports and installing over NFS. Of course there are the > little bits of work necessary to activate NFS, but starting the > daemons (or SIGHUPing mountd if they're already up) is not hard. I guess it comes down to which is simpler: setting up an ftp for the cdrom, or an nfs. If people don't have experience with nfs, then it becomes much more of a difference, as nfs documentation is not entirely clear, and a little bit scary. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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