Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:33:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A successful installation with CD image Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991006121258.12282A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910051430360.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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