From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 18:35:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F37437B408 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbia ([12.93.210.168]) by mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20011017013554.NWUM2779.mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net@columbia>; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:35:54 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Walter Hop" Cc: "louie miranda" , "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: RE: Re[2]: Where is sysinstall? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:34:51 -0400 Message-ID: <007f01c156ab$ea3c47e0$6600000a@columbia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <172154183434.20011017032714@binity.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Walter Hop > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:27 PM > To: Andrew C. Hornback > Cc: louie miranda; FreeBSD-Questions > Subject: Re[2]: Where is sysinstall? > > [in reply to achornback@worldnet.att.net, 17-10-2001] > > > Umm, I appreciate the help... but the machine has no floppy drive. > > Make a RAMdisk, dd the floppy image on it, mount the floppy partition and > copy stand/sysinstall from there? :) Now there's an idea... Maybe there's a more elegant solution as Dru suggested earlier. I still think that either INSTALL.TXT needs to be clearer, or the images of the boot floppies need to actually be expanded on the CDs somewhere, if that works. I mean, it's what, 3 Megs at the most? Out of a total of nearly 2700 Megs... --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message