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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing from mounted filesystem
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:09:08 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

Richard Tobin wrote:
> How is intalling FreeBSD from a mounted filesystem supposed to work?
> (I have an external SCSI disk with the distribution on it.)  In
> particular, when do I get a chance to mount the disk?  I tried

You mount it in the label editor then give this path to the UFS install
when it asks.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project