Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 16:10:01 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make installworld over NFS Message-ID: <363C4189.57365D34@urc.ac.ru> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981030122159.17172A-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com> <86iuh194iq.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com>
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Chris Shenton wrote: > > My minibox is a lowly 486sx-16 or -33 with only 5MB RAM so building > the OS on it is out of the question. It's also at a lights-out ISP > site so getting to it physically is difficult. > > Any suggestions on how to do this when the minibox is a 28.8 POTS line > away? Would the NFS be reliable enough? > Yes mostly, but only TCP NFS. I did it many times. > It's currently at 2.2.1-RELEASE and I'd like to bring it up to 2.2-STABLE. > I don't remember, was there AMD in 2.2.1, anyway, it didn't support NFS over TCP before ~2.2.7. So you have to mount filesystems manually with -o tcp. Be careful and install the STABLE kernel first, before installing the whole distribution (just to have both kernel versions in case when installation is broken due to accidental line disconnect). -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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