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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:34:01 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install FreeBSD from another machine
Message-ID:  <19991005233401.B8199@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991005154606.7345C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
References:  <19991003235431.E35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <Pine.GSO.3.96.991005154606.7345C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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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.

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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