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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: FTP / CD install?
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To: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson)
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> 
>   I have a somewhat elderly PC (no CDROM) that I'd like to put FreeBSD on.
> I can put the PC on the same ethernet that my 'real' PC is on, so I can
> do a ftp or NFS install. My immediate preference is for ftp, because I'm
> familiar with that, and I've never setup a NFS system before. (Yes, I know
> that NFS would probably be better, but my comfort level with that is
> rather low. If you could explain how to do it for an NFS newbie, go ahead,
> but that's not necessarily the point here).
>  
>   I can mount the WC CD in my 'real' PC, and install off that, but the
> directory structure of the CD is somewhat different from the directory
> structure of an ftp distribution site. I'd appreciate any advice about
> what symlinks (or whatever) would be required on my 'real' system to get
> the system installed on the old clunker.

No problem. mount the CD on the remote PC, e.g. 

mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt
export /mnt (/etc/exports)

choose NFS installation method during the install phase on your
install PC. You can specify u.v.w.x:/mnt as the NFS path to mount
and go ahead.


>  
>   Thanks.
>  
>   --Gary Hanson
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de