Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:18:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dd question Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509281216000.97426@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <5608BFA4.1080903@hiwaay.net> References: <5606A4FF.4090105@hiwaay.net> <CA%2BtpaK3UOEfKSfSjbdcH%2BR2jaU9=XVBEg%2B%2Bjn5VCbiiUkLF_Tg@mail.gmail.com> <56073915.6030707@hiwaay.net> <20150927131036.c6b2d9ce.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509270540450.40168@wonkity.com> <5607E84D.1050803@hiwaay.net> <20150927155354.7dab526a.freebsd@edvax.de> <5607F676.10307@hiwaay.net> <20150927160604.f1e1c21d.freebsd@edvax.de> <5607FA6E.5040600@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509271857480.36906@wonkity.com> <5608BFA4.1080903@hiwaay.net>
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 09/27/15 20:07, Warren Block wrote: >> Messing with a bsdlabel installer image is probably a waste of time, but >> yes, you can add a partition (a bsdlabel partition). Or you can probably >> use growfs to expand the filesystem to the size of the drive. If you >> already have images on the network, consider mounting them with NFS >> instead. > > How do I do that (mount images using NFS) ? Is that feasible for boot/install > ? Thanks & TIA .... Set up an NFS server on the system with the images: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html That example shows sharing a CDROM image. Then mount that from the installer command line. (Untested by me, but I'd expect it to work.)
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