From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 13: 9: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696BF15616 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:09:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA05162; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:53:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Doug , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD from another machine In-Reply-To: <19991003235431.E35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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