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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More Questions Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R)
Date: 21 Aug 1995 12:50:04 +0200
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Charlie Sorsby <crs@beta.lanl.gov> wrote:
>>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?
>
>Certainly!
>
>In fact, it's even listed in the install notes:
>
> Finally, if you would like people to be able to FTP install
> FreeBSD directly from the CDROM in your machine, you'll find
> it quite easy...
And since the original question was related to NFS, yes, you should
also be able to install it via NFS. For a Sun NFS server, you have to
turn on the ``Use privileged port'' option from the options menu
however.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)