From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 19 7:23: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from helios.kos.net (helios.kos.net [199.246.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5839437BC2E for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 07:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jennings@kos.net) Received: (qmail 5094 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2000 15:23:24 -0000 Received: from mbv1-pl-ri30.kos.net (HELO oscar) (206.186.41.70) by helios.kos.net with SMTP; 19 Feb 2000 15:23:24 -0000 From: "jennings" To: Subject: nfs Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 10:23:55 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am not a complete newbie to Linux or FreeBSD. I would like to install my fresh new copy of FreeBSD 3.4 onto a computer which has not cdrom but does have a compatible NIC on a small LAN. I have been trying to export the cdrom drive from the Linux machine so as to perform a NFS install of FreeBSD. Neither the FreeBSD Handbook nor much Linux documentation is helping. I guess I cannot read between the lines :-( Here's what I did. 1\ Setup the Linux machine as a NFS Server 2\ exported the cdrom via a line in the /etc/exports file (/cdrom *(ro) *(ro) ) 3\ restarted the NFS Daemon and check to make sure its alive 4\ Made the 2 install disks for FreeBSD they work! Now I have no DNS setup yet because I wanted the FreeBSD to be the DNS server. When asked for the NFS server during the install I simply typed " ip-address:/cdrom " and figured this should work. My network does work and does not exhibit and irregularities. Any ideas of how to check to see if I got a login failure or what I am doing wrong would be appreciated. If this is the wrong place for this message then I dearly apologize forthright. Thanks Mike Jennings To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message