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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.cais.net!news.vbc.net!news.uk0.vbc.net!SoNet!innotts.co.uk!seriald2d.innotts.co.uk!user From: robmel@nadt.org.uk (Robin Melville) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:54:21 +0000 Organization: Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Lines: 30 Message-ID: <robmel-100396235421@seriald2d.innotts.co.uk> References: <313B1B32.2F1CF0FB@kampai.euronet.nl> <4hk88h$7u6@daily-planet.execpc.com> <313DD762.2781E494@kampai.euronet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: seriald2d.innotts.co.uk Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> wrote: > > : 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. [...snip...] > > I was using another FreeBSD server, but it seems I wasn't using the > correct NFS path (doesn't explain why the ftp version didn't work > though). The cdrom tree is differently arranged than the ftp site. You have to ftp to the dists directory... but then it can't find a kernel <sigh> Stephen Mathezer wrote: > How about if the machine with the CDROm drive doesn't understand cd9660? > (Eg: all the file names are truncated and in uppercase) Could the > intelligence to get the file names from those 00trans_table files be built > into the install? That would be a great help! Those of us migrating from SCO boxes would be ETERNALLY grateful :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team +------------------------------------+ Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 | As Huxley said -- everbody needs a | Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 | holiday from reality now and then. | work: robmel@nadt.org.uk | But a holiday's not a holiday if | home: robmel@innotts.co.uk | you're having it all the time... | --------------------------------+------------------------------------+