nfs:

During a fresh installation, when you first get introduced to dselect, there will only be an Internet connection available if the machine uses an Ethernet card and it is recognized by the installation kernel. Without this kind of configuration a PPP/SLIP connection, typically through a modem, must be established before proceeding with this step. Note: There are several other ways to make a connection to another machine, local area net, or wide area net. Ethernet and PPP/SLIP are the most common. By whatever method, once a connection to the desired host is available, this method can be used.

What you need to know:

• URL to the NFS mount.
• Directory structure found on that mount.

When this option is chosen, the first request is for the domain name of the NFS server. This can be a numeric IP address, or a fully qualified domain name, of the form something.someplace.net, which will be used to contact the server. The installation software will mount the NFS volume found at the declared IP address.

Once mounted, the location of the ``top level'' of the distribution is required. dselect is expecting the path to a directory called stable that contains main/binary-i386. Some archives don't support this path structure. Under these circumstances it becomes necessary to specify each binary distribution individually, and the correct answer is ``none''. See the Notes section on page  for more details.