> 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.

Now wait a second -- you seem to be implying that one can't export a CD's
fs. I may be just some prehistoric caveman, who fell into a pit and was
frozen for thousands of years and thawed, and who doesn't know much about
"laws" and "statutes," but ... oops, sorry, SNL skit. I mean, I don't have
any experience with NetBSD's NFS exports, but I know I've exported CDs from
Alphas (OSF/1). So I'll bet it's possible in NetBSD, too, if the exports
file is correct.

                            Jon Howell
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