>> 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.

Ok I'll byte, what makes the it correct.  I mean the real essence of my
message was: NFS aint crossing mount points, how do I NFS export a cd?  I
have tried everything that I can think of.

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