06-15-2010
it depends...
the technologies you mentioned are not really directly comparable. SMB can be used within local network only (unless it is encapsulated), it is not routable. So if you do it between different networks , it is not really an option. NFS can be very fast, but assuming that both your machines can use NFS. Also NFS will play along if you have static routes and do some trick with a traffic. However NFS will suffer on slow networking connections, for many reasons. Also NFS is UNIX/Linux world solution. Never heard of Windows on NFS (may be there are options but they are not a standard way of doing things). FTP is good for far-away connections, if network is fast, so it is fast, but it is the solution when you transfer between two different operating systems. You may like
Amazon.com: learn linux networking: Software by UNIX Academy as it goes over things like that...
I hope it helps...
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
sysinst
SYSINST(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SYSINST(8)
NAME
sysinst -- install or upgrade a NetBSD system
SYNOPSIS
sysinst [-D] [-f deffile] [-r releasename]
DESCRIPTION
sysinst is a menu-based program that may be used to install or upgrade a NetBSD system. It is usually invoked automatically when the system
is booted from appropriate installation media.
sysinst is usually not present on a NetBSD system that has been fully installed.
OPTIONS
-D Switch on debugging.
-r releasename Set the releasename if it is different to the one compiled. Currently unused.
-f deffile Set a file for definitions other than the defaults. See DEFINITION FILE for its format.
DEFINITION FILE
The definition file is used to set several other names and directories to search for. You can specify any of the options in the file. They
are stored as:
option = value
pairs. In this description, REL and MACH are the release and architecture respectively, determined by the image sysinst is used on.
option name default value description
release REL Release name (also set by -r releasename).
machine MACH Machine architecture
xfer dir /usr/INSTALL Transfer dir
ext dir Extract dir (will usually be set later on)
ftp host ftp.NetBSD.org ftp host for fetching files
ftp dir pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-REL ftp directory for fetching files
ftp prefix /MACH/binary/sets directory to look for sets. Note that this is used for all kinds of fetching (CDs, local FS,
...), not only ftp.
ftp user ftp ftp user for connecting
ftp pass - ftp password
ftp proxy - ftp proxy
nfs host - nfs host for fetching via nfs
nfs dir /bsd/release nfs directory for fetching files
cd dev cd0a name of the CD device for fetching files
fd dev /dev/fd0a name of floppy for fetching files
local dev - Other device to be mounted for fetching files
local fs ffs FS-type for local dev
local dir release Directory to look for in the mounted local fs
targetroot mount /targetroot Directory to mount target root dir to
dist postfix .tgz Suffix of set files to be extracted
diskname mydisk disktab(5) diskname to use for target disk
SEE ALSO
release(7), afterboot(8), boot(8), diskless(8)
<machine>/INSTALL.* files on CD-ROM installation media .../NetBSD-<rel>/<machine>/INSTALL.* files in NetBSD releases or snapshots.
HISTORY
A sysinst command appeared in NetBSD 1.3.
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