Christopher R. Bowman wrote on 6.3.1996
  Help NSF and cdrom


- I have a FreeBSD cdrom that I want to use to bootstrap a pentium, and the
- way I wanted to do it was by slapping my cdrom drive into my IIci, and have
- netbsd NFS export the cdrom drive.  Well so much for the theory!  I created
(deleted)
- the nfs exported files from the netbsd machine, but not the /cdrom files.
- What gives? it seems that NFS will only let me export files on the root
- partition.  How can I export this cdrom?

Hi,

you have fallen victim to a common misunderstanding regarding NFS exports:
NFS only exports single filesystems (or parts of them). So what you're
telling NFS is to export your mount point (/cdrom).

If you want to install FreeBSD then create a user called  cdrom, give it
the home directory /cdrom, a valid shell (IMPORTANT !) and do a ftp install
from FreeBSD.

ciao
  lutz


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