From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 5:16:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F16C37B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 05:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14vI1m-000CEU-00; Thu, 3 May 2001 13:16:14 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f43CGEY63431; Thu, 3 May 2001 13:16:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:16:14 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Ronald Klop Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: instal 4.3 over 4.1.1 without a floppy Message-ID: <20010503131614.A63328@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010502221148.V824-100000@dlanor.klop.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010502221148.V824-100000@dlanor.klop.yi.org>; from ronald-20010602@klop.yi.org on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:25:40PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ronald Klop [010502 21:27]: > I have a 486 server running 4.1.1-RELEASE without a floppy drive and with > a ccd drive. I wish to upgrade this to 4.3-RELEASE. > The problem is it has no floppy, so the boot floppies don't work. And it > has a ccd drive which doesn't work with the GENERIC kernel. > But I have a workstation with 4.3-RELEASE on it. I have the following > plan: > Build and install a 4.3 kernel for the 486 and copy a 4.3 > /stand/sysinstall on it and than reboot the 486. > Will this work? Are there any points I'm missing? Doesn't anyone cvsup anymore??? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html -- I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man. -- Fred Allen Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message