Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:53:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD from another machine Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991005154606.7345C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991003235431.E35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On [19991003 22:31], Zhihui Zhang (zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) wrote: > > >I installed FreeBSD from CD-ROM and via FTP sites many times. But > >installing from a NFS server or another filesystem is not well documented. > >So please give me a little more information. > > Simplest installs I did: > > insert CD in host. Mount CD-ROM. Insert bootdisks into the other hosts, > configure everything. Configure network. Set installation media to use > ftp and then specify an URL which is the address or ip-address of your > host with the CD-ROM mounted. Log in as an user cd simply install from: > > ftp://host/../../../cdrom or something along those lines depending on > set-up. > > Of course, you could also just change /etc/export, NFS mount the cd-rom > driver and use the NFS install option. > Thanks for your reply. Today, I tried the following: (1) Download CD image into /usr/cd_image/3.3-install.cd0 (2) vnconfig /dev/vn0 /usr/cd_image/3.3-install.cd0 (3) mount -t cd9660 /dev/vn0 /mnt Can I use /mnt to replace the normal /cdrom which corresponds to the actual CD-ROM not just a CD image? If so, there is no need to use a CD-ROM as long as I keep the image on the hard disk. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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