Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:22:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: "Robert M. Luedtke" <rluedtke@freewwweb.com>, freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install over networked computers Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991005161326.7345F-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910051319110.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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? I made a mistake in my posting. I am sorry. I actually tried to install from a filesystem /mnt into another partition on the same machine: # vnconfig /dev/vn0c /usr/cd_image/3.3-install.cd0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt # /stand/sysinstall (I did not try to NFS export /mnt because on my client I get NFS Portmap not registered error). Inside /stand/sysinstall, I choose another partition. Everything looks OK except that when I tries to boot from that partition, I got "invalid partition". It seems to me that if you want to do a fresh installation or overwrite everything, you should always boot from boot floppies or CD-ROM instead of using /stand/sysinstall directly. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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