From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 13:39: 4 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 3197B1567F for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:37:02 -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 QAA19204; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:36:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:22:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "Robert M. Luedtke" , freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install over networked computers In-Reply-To: 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 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