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#! rnews 2011 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!smalltown.uoregon.edu!neonlights.uoregon.edu!platform.uoregon.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.euro.net!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN? Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 11:45:15 +0100 Organization: Kampai Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31400FBB.446B9B3D@kampai.euronet.nl> References: <313B1B32.2F1CF0FB@kampai.euronet.nl> <313D0611.15FB7483@freebsd.org> <4hlau6$d95@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: p513.asd.euronet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) J Wunsch wrote: > > > Gary Howland 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 > > I've noticed that the filesystem layout on the CDROM and on the > suggested FTP server are slightly different. There's one more > subdirectory layer on the FTP server. > > You could work around this by making a separate floppy image of the > ``root.flp'', and using the NFS/FTP path that ends up in ``/dists''. > The installation program won't find root.flp (since the ``floppies'' > directory is actually one directory level higher on the CD), but it > will then try to fetch it from a floppy. This is your chance. I tried adding the /dists, and left the boot floppy in the drive, but it still had problems finding the kernel (or whatever it was that it was looking for) - are you saying that I should have then placed root.flp in the floppy drive? Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06