From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 14:39:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC98E14C82 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.239]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAC5A99; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:39:45 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA08826; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:34:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:34:01 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: Doug , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD from another machine Message-ID: <19991005233401.B8199@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19991003235431.E35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991005 23:27], Zhihui Zhang (zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) wrote: > >(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. For all I know: yes. You could also of course mkdir /install And mount it on there, thus freeing /mnt again. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Money is like an arm or a leg - Use it, or lose it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message