> : Why would you want NFS rather than FTP? The only benefit is for systems > : that do not have enough space to download the backages. NFS is actually > : slower for me. > > To do the base install, perhaps, or can that be done from ftp also? I > didn't think it could be, though perhaps I missed something. Ah, OK ... can the base be done via NFS? IF it can, what is preventing FTP?