From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 29 11:40:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02097 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02045 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id NAA12100; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:39:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199704291839.NAA12100@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 2.2.1 To: CHENSEL@us.oracle.com (Christopher H. Hensel) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:39:51 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704291725.KAA12013@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> from "Christopher H. Hensel" at "Apr 29, 97 10:11:32 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Christopher H. Hensel said: > > > > > -- Start of included mail. > Date: 29 Apr 97 09:47:04 > To:support@cdrom.com > Subject:FreeBSD 2.2.1 > Support personal, > I purchased the FreeBSD book "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg > Lehey. During the installation I chose to install from an NFS mounted CD-ROM. > In the book the directions tell you to change directories to "/cd0/dists". On > the 2.2.1 CD-ROM there is no such directory as "dists". Could you please tell > me what directory I need to be in to complete the installation. I don't have to book in front of me, but I'd be willing to bet that that is the mount/exported path of the CDRom. While doing a local CD install it mounts the disk on /dist. Paul. -- I'm the bad guy? ... How did that happen? - Michael Douglas "Falling Down"