From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 5:20:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5537A37B41D for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA84125; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:20:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:20:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200109221220.OAA84125@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binary upgrade via sysinstall In-Reply-To: <200109220624.f8M6Olp07279@giganda.komkon.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.1-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Igor Roshchin wrote: > _remotely_, how would one is supposed to obtain a copy of the appropriate > sysinstall for the new version (floppy and CD-ROM is out of question). Download the floppies/mfsroot.flp file, mount it using vnconfig, extract the image contained on it, and then mount that one again using vnconfig. It contains the sysinstall binary. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message