setup 5.4 NFS install server?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat May 14 06:41:55 PDT 2005


Steve Rikli <sr at genyosha.net> writes:

> With 5.4, I dumped -disc1 onto the NFS server, but was prompted for
> the next disc to get perl package(s?).  So I dumped -disc2 into the
> same place on the NFS server, but sysinstall continued to prompt for
> the next disc on subsequent attempts.
> 
> I'm thinking I must not be getting (parts of?) -disc2 into the right
> place, and/or need to update a table-of-contents file, or something
> equally simple.

The easiest answer that occurred to me:

   Copy the packages/ directories from both disks to the same place,
   mount it on the target machines, point PKG_PATH at it, and use
   pkg_add(1) from the command line.


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