From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 00:37:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16684 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.oeno.com (ns.oeno.com [194.100.99.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA16679 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:37:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@ns.oeno.com) Received: (qmail 25243 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Jan 1999 08:36:42 -0000 To: John Hay Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't References: <199901111058.MAA00994@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za.newsgate.clinet.fi> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 12 Jan 1999 10:35:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: John Hay's message of "11 Jan 1999 13:19:27 +0200" Message-ID: <867lusga6v.fsf@not.oeno.com> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Hay writes: > That was what I was thinking of. I think ftp installs are much more used > than nfs installs and for that reason nfs could move to the second floppy > and few (I think) people would be impacted. Really? NFS is so much simpler (if it isn't an installation from a public server) that I would expect it to be common. Given a CD and a bunch of machines, some without CD-ROMs, the simplest way to install the machines without CD-ROMs would seem to be mounting the cd on a machine that can, adding /cdrom -ro to /etc/exports and installing over NFS. Of course there are the little bits of work necessary to activate NFS, but starting the daemons (or SIGHUPing mountd if they're already up) is not hard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message