Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:25:02 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: freebsd-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Another 2.0.5-RELEASE installation problem. Message-ID: <199506291225.IAA03441@ponds.UUCP>
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Well - I have discovered something else "missing" from the 2.0.5-RELEASE
installation, and have some suggestions. First a scenario.
1) I grabbed the 2.0.5-RELEASE distribution from freefall, and simply
copied it onto a CD, just as it sat on freefall.
2) I then tried to do an install from this, but the CD-ROM installation
wanted the distribution files to be in the "dist" subdirectory,
which, of course, mine weren't since it was a copy of freefall.
(Perhaps some instructions for this would be nice...)
3) I then thought "What about this 'mounted file system' option" and
went to try that, thinking "I'll just mount my CD, and do the
installation there."
Unfortunately, there is no way to specify how/where to mount the
file system, or to specify which mounted file system. If we assume
/mnt, then there at least needs to be a dialogue that asks for
the mount parameters and device (in my case, '-t cd9660' and '/dev/cd0a')
Fortunately, I have several machines at home, and was able to simply
move my SCSI CD-ROM to another 2.0 machine, mount the CD and do an install
from NFS over ethernet... but most people will probably not be in this
situation (or maybe they would be if they're doing such esoteric installs.)
- Thanks -
- Dave Rivers -
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