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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        "Robert M. Luedtke" <rluedtke@freewwweb.com>, freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install over networked computers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910051319110.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991005154308.7345A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Robert M. Luedtke wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a FreeBSD 2.2.8 system running on a Pentium II Compaq Presario with a
> > > DVD-ROM drive.  I have an old AST machine (Pentium 100MHz) without a CD-ROM
> > > drive.  They both have ethernet cards.  I can network them together and
> > > pinging shows that they are communicating with each other.  I looked in the
> > > installation FAQs looking for a way to install FreeBSD on the AST machine
> > > over this intranet using the DVD-ROM drive of the Compaq for the
> > > installation CD.  I couldn't find anything.  This is probably well covered
> > > somewhere in the docs and I'm just over looking it.  Any help, suggestions,
> > > guidance, etc. would we very appreciated.
> > 
> > Export the cdrom via NFS and install over nfs, or provide
> > ftp access to the mounted cdrom and do an ftp instal via specific
> > URL.
> 
> Is it possible to install from a cdrom image by using vnconfig,
> mount_cd9660 and then NFS export it?  I tried this today and failed. 

I don't see why not, perhaps you can explain where it failed?

-Alfred



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