From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 17:13:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834B614DBF for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA33519; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:17:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911070117.UAA33519@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: installation from network cdrom In-Reply-To: <3824B960.5333C23D@fastlane.net> from mideyon at "Nov 6, 1999 05:27:28 pm" To: leoric@fastlane.net (mideyon) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:17:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mideyon wrote, > I am trying to install FreeBSD from a network cdrom. I followed > instructions that were in the booklet that came with the cdrom set but > it didnt seem to work and i didnt see anything on the webpage. Does > anyone know how to do this? I tried putting > ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin. in my /etc/master.passwd file > but when i try to install it says that it cannot find the directory. OK, so you are logging in now. IIRC, you have to be able to find the CD at, /pub/FreeBSD/3.3-RELEASE Once your anonymous use logs in. I can't find the exact instructions for this in the docs at the moment. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message