Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:35:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs install - space and packages required? Message-ID: <199511292035.NAA28505@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511282158.PAA04870@ellis.uchicago.edu> from "Steve Farrell" at Nov 28, 95 03:58:00 pm
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> i find it disturbing that after 15 minutes of looking at your web site > and ftp site, and going through the installation readmes, i can't find > the answer to the most basic question i have: WHICH PACKAGES DO I NEED > TO RETRIEVE TO PREPARE FOR AN NFS INSTALLATION, AND HOW MUCH SPACE DO > THEY REQUIRE? i'd expect this to be a routine question. with > slackware/linux, this is the first thing you see, and can prepare > accordingly. i've found discussion of how to repartition your DOS > harddisk on the fly, yet it is not mentioned how much space is > required. this seems very backwards to me. That's because there is a single install disk for all types of installs, including NFS. You just weren't expecting it, with yout Linux background (Linux has more preconfigured kernels to pick and choose from). 1) Download the installation boot floppy 2) Boot it 3) Pick "NFS" as the "distribution media" 4) Install > obviously i looked at the bin directory, and noticed several dozen files > with useless names. why do you do this? what's wrong with bin usr.bin > usr.local.bin and such like netbsd? or what's wrong with having it > upfront which disk-sets are needed (a n ,etc like for slackware)? is > this a marketing scam to get people to buy your CDROM's? Yeah. That's it. Hundereds of us are getting kickbacks. 8-). Note that WC is the Linux Slackware CDROM supplier as well... Download the one floppy and boot it and you'll be happy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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