From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 21: 5:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 185D13D8E for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 21:05:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 78986 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Feb 2000 05:08:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 21:08:57 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Q: Installing from existing system Message-ID: <20000207210857.A78925@kearneys.ca> References: <38a41de5.67558611@mail.afnetinc.com> <389F32AE.65C22E61@math.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <389F32AE.65C22E61@math.udel.edu>; from schwenk@math.udel.edu on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:01:34PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:01:34PM -0500, Peter Schwenk wrote: > Set up the existing box as an NFS server and share the CD to the other > box that you want to setup. > > Elliot Finley wrote: > > > If I have a running 3.4-stable system, is it possible to do a network > > install from it to a brand new box? > > -- What if he doesn't have a CD? I guess he could download all of the installation files from freebsd.org, and install over FTP or NFS. What would be really slick is if FreeBSD had the ability to install directly from another machine's source tree, 'making world' onto the new box, and copying over sufficient other files for a new system. -Brent .-. .-. / \ .-. / \ / \ --/---\-----/-----\-------/-------\- `' \ / \ / \ `-' \ / Brent Kearney `-' brent@kearneys.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message