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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Remote CD-ROM install ( was Re: More Questions Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R)) Date: 20 Aug 1995 18:22:03 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 34 Message-ID: <417ugb$8iq@helena.MT.net> References: <40ul40$n2i@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <412m9h$g9v@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <412m9h$g9v@newshost.lanl.gov>, Charlie Sorsby <crs@beta.lanl.gov> wrote: >Speaking of NFS install... > >Should I be able to do that with a CDROM drive on a Sun? That is >to say, I have a small network of Suns, one of which has Sun's >CDROM drive. Should I be able to connect a PC to that ethernet and >install FreeBSD from that CDROM drive? As a matter of fact, I installed FreeBSD last week doing that 2 different ways. The first machine had a supported ethernet card, so I pointed it at the SUN after setting anon. ftp to the mounted CD. Then, I exported the CD from the sun to the newly installed FreeBSD PC a couple days later via NFS. I then installed FreeBSD on a laptop connected to a FreeBSD PC via the parallel cable using the NFS-mounted CD from the Sun. Worked like a champ. >For that matter, should I be able to do anything with the contents >of the CDROM (Walnut Creek) from that drive irrespective of the >answer to the previous question? E.g. should I be able to read the >FAQs by mounting the CDROM on the Sun? Transfer the stuff to the >boot floppy or boot the PC off the CDROM or something like that? Etc. Why not? That's how I built the original boot floppy. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fishing? Send me email, and we'll home #: (406) 443-7063 | setup something.