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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!polstra!not-for-mail From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More Questions Re: NFS install problem (2.0.5R) Date: 22 Aug 1995 07:30:51 -0700 Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <41cpmr$4pk@seattle.polstra.com> References: <40ul40$n2i@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> <412m9h$g9v@newshost.lanl.gov> <413ftv$eic@agate.berkeley.edu> <419ocs$qhv@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: seattle.polstra.com In article <419ocs$qhv@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > 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. I'm curious ... why is this even an option? Why not simply *always* use a privileged port for NFS during the install? That should work with any NFS server. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth