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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:54:52 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreSBIE NFS Client
Message-ID:  <20070217095452.ba9b901d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
In-Reply-To: <001001c7528b$e90529f0$6501a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <001001c7528b$e90529f0$6501a8c0@GRANT>

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"Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> If I boot from a FreeSBIE disk on a blank machine, can I:
> 
> 1. Create pristine filesystems (/ /usr /var /home etc) on the local HD.

Yes.

> 2. Startup an NFS client to connect to a NFS server, and transfer over .tar. files
> to rebuild the local filesystems?

Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so, see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html

Yes, you can do that as well.

I haven't used FreeSBIE in a while, but unless they've changed things _radically_,
you'll have all the tools that would be available under FreeBSD anyway, which
includes the tools you need to do the two things listed above.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.



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