Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:36:36 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: dannyman@dannyland.org (dannyman) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system Message-ID: <199908170106.KAA43741@gizmo.internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990816174822.F353@stumpy.dannyland.org> from "dannyman" at Aug 16, 99 05:48:22 pm
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dannyman wrote:
> The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
1. boot single-user
2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b
3. reboot
4. When boot1 gives you the 5-second paused baton, press any key
5. enter "da(0,b)" at the Boot: prompt
Us FreeBSD people can pretend we can do miniroot installs too :-)
[ admittedly, I haven't tried this since before the new boot blocks were
committed, but it worked perfectly last year... ]
- mark
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