5.4 NFS install broken?

Steve Rikli sr at genyosha.net
Sat May 28 18:46:31 PDT 2005


How does one create the NFS installation directory for FreeBSD-5.4 ?

I.e. is it supposed to be as simple as dumping the entire contents
of CD#1 & CD#2 into a directory on an NFS server, and pointing
'sysinstall' to it?

I've been doing 4.x & 5.x NFS installs successfully with an NFS
server's repositories setup in that manner, but with FreeBSD-5.4 ,
'sysinstall' prompted for the next "disc", and I had no apparent
way of selecting a different media or different source.

I'm thinking I must not be getting (parts of?) CD#2 into the right
place, and/or need to update a table-of-contents file, or something
equally simple.

If there's a different/better way (e.g. not using CDs at all) to
build a FreeBSD-5.4 repository suitable for NFS installation purposes,
advice on that would also be welcome.

The Handbook chapter on installations is pretty good, but it sort
of glosses over the details in the Advanced Installation (2.13.6.1) 
section, and I suspect it might not be quite as simple for 5.4 .

Thanks,
sr.
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