From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 05:40:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7636D37B408 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 05:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948AE43FA3 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 05:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h44CeAA7036403; Sun, 4 May 2003 06:40:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 06:39:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030504.063935.07172031.imp@bsdimp.com> To: barney@pit.databus.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> References: <20030504020700.B3CCA37B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030504040804.GA19654@wjv.com> <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 12:40:12 -0000 In message: <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> Barney Wolff writes: : Question for the sysinstall gurus: Is there any necessary relation : between the kernel version that is booted from the floppy and the : system version that is being installed? That is, could one boot : a 5.0-R floppy and then tell sysinstall to install a snapshot? It : would make the whole problem moot, if so. Yes. I've done this in the past. Warner