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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!its.hooked.net!get From: nobody@nowhere Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install from WFW w/NFSd or FTPd Date: Wed, 07 Feb 96 23:37:52 GMT Organization: Hooked Online Services Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4fbe38$k64@its.hooked.net> References: <4f7svc$nav@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: webe-55.ppp.hooked.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4f7svc$nav@daily-planet.execpc.com>, jkane@earth.execpc.com (Jeff Kane) wrote: >I tried to install 2.1 from CD last night in the following manner. > >I ran the Tropic NFS server on a Windows For Workgroups machine and >exported the CDROM. I tried to export each directory in the /dists >structure seperatelly also. I then set up a FTP server on the WFW >machine and allowed any access with no security. In both instances, >the FreeBSD machine connected and tried to get the files. FreeBSD >tried to CWD to "2.1.0-Release". Of course, this failed! Since my >FTP/NFS server uses DOS naming conventions, this fails. > >Am I on the right track in thinking it is related to the Rock-Ridge >extentions that are causing my problem? > >I know it can be insatlled from a DOS partition, But I want to give >the whole disk to FreeBSD. Is there a way to specify where to look >for the files during a FTP or NFS instead of it just trying a >unknown (to me anyhow) directory structure? My only other alternative >is to try the IDE CDROM driver (ATAPI). SInce this is barely supported, >I would rather not! > >Or, is the distribution from Walnut Creek not able to be NFS mounted >and loaded directlly? Must it be locally mounted only? > >The best solutiuon would to NFS mount the CD from my WFW server as >needed. My SCSI card on my WFW server is not a supported one. My >other Machine has a Future Domain but I need to open it up to see >if it is a 8xx/900 series or not. I do have both a SB-Pro and a >Pro Audio Spectrum, but no CD-ROMs for either of these! Can't >win either way here. Even if my SCSI is supported, I don't want >to move it to the new box yet. I want to see how well it works >first. > >-- >Jeff Kane jkane@execpc.com >Sysop - Home Brew University BBS Brew City Campus 414-238-9074 >Genealogy Search: Brickner, Kane, Kimbro, LaClaire, Snyder|Snider, > Seecs|Seetch|Sich, and Thorton. > Visit my homepage for more ... http://www.execpc.com/~jkane I installed FreeBSD via SkyNet FTP server on my (I know...)Win95 box, and it worked great. The only 2 gotcha's I found was that I couldn't install the packages, and that I had to copy the dists and floppies I wanted to the C drive, because FBSD messes up with a URL like: ftp://192.168.0.1:21/e:/, and SkyNet doesn't allow you to set the default drive to anything but C. I just pointed the 'Other FTP' at ftp://192.168.0.1/fbsd/. --Matt Clark