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From: jkane@earth.execpc.com (Jeff Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN?
Date: 6 Mar 1996 14:42:25 GMT
Organization: Exec-PC
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Gary Howland (gary@kampai.euronet.nl) wrote:
: Hi,
: I've been trying, without success, to install FreeBSD 2.1 over
: our LAN. I have the FreeBSD 2.1 CD mounted and available via
: both anonymous ftp and NFS from our server. However, both the
: ftp and NFS methods fail. Am I trying to do something that
: the CD was not "designed" to do? Is it really going to be easier
: for me to install a CD drive in the target machines than to
: install from the LAN?
What kind of server?? I was using a Windows For Workgroups Server, and needed to
add a couple of switches to the mount command. It does not support read or write
sizes greater than 1024. try -r 1024 -w 1024 ip.add.re.ss:/cd-rom as you nfs
address instead of just an Ip address and the path. (change i[p.add.re.ss:/cd-rom
to what ever your servers ipaddress is and the correct path name to the cd-rom.)
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