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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Lance <lancez@accessld.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Installation question
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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Lance wrote:

> We bought your FreeBSD 2.0.5 (Walnut Creek CDROM version) several months
> ago. Now we would like to install it on a PC running SCO UNIX (System
> V/386 Release 3.2). However, this PC does not have a CD-ROM driver.

Ouch, where did you dredge that thing up?  :-)  I would call Walnut Creek
really soon and order 2.1.6-RELEASE.  2.0.5 didn't support CDROMs and is
over a year old.

> What I'm wondering is that is it possible for us to install it from
> network?  This PC is connected to our intranet and is able to talk to
> our SunSparc machine (running Solaris 2.x.) The installation file on the
> CD says something about NFS instalation.  But I had difficulty to follow
> it. Could you tell me a little more about how and where to this CDROM
> and what to do in SCO UNIX?

Absolutely.  Just set up an anonymous FTP on your Sparc set up similiar to
ftp.freebsd.org, slap a cheap NE2000 or similar ethernet card in the 
machine, select a custom ftp site, and you should be good.

> BTW, could I simply copy entire (or partial) content of that CDROM onto
> SCO UNIX and install it from there? 

Copy over whatever you like.  Or even, mount the cd under
/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE and set the FTP Error mode to 'retry' and it
should work.

I would really, really suggest getting 2.1.6-R first.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major