From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 08:54:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088CD16A492 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:54:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D798A13C4B8 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:54:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9] (may be forged)) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0H8sP1a012498 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:54:25 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.102] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0H8sPHF027605 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:54:25 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:54:24 -0800 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.1.17.3932 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:54:26 -0000 On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and > disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to > simply "copy the FreeBSD distribution files..." > > (question) > > (A) Would that mean to copy the files from both install disks into one > common directory then export the directory via NFS? Yes. That's the purpose of NFS installs. Directory heirachy (from the release's directory), needs to be maintained though. So the base directory would be similar to what's seen in , where you'd have to create a directory name that matches the release, then download all the items to your subdirectory on the NFS share under the release directory that you want to install (i.e. 6.2-RELEASE/base, etc). Many people would just download their files from the FTP site and copy it to their NFS share as I described above. That's what the handbook means AFAIK. > (B) Mount each ISO in a loopback then export the two loopbacked ISO's > under each other in an exported parent directory? > > TIA Not possible with the basic FreeBSD installer disk, but maybe it's possible with the FreeBSIE LiveCD, or a custom CD if you build in the relevant stuff for a rescue shell; you'd still need to get at the iso somehow though, and you'd have to make sure that ramdisk (that's the Linux name, but I forgot the FreeBSD name right now?) support in order to mount an ISO image compiled into your kernel. -Garrett