Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 12:00:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Matt Douhan <matt@hasta.se> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SV: Floppy Support Message-ID: <3EB5635A.9E6D973B@mindspring.com> References: <IIEBLFJCECCIAJIHMKNPOENPCAAA.matt@hasta.se>
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Matt Douhan wrote: > > 2. Servers without CDROM drives. As another poster mentioned, 1U rack or > > clustering servers frequently don't have CDROMs. I know mine don't. > > Fine. PXE boot. What sort of sick f!#ker adds a floppy but leaves a CD > out, anyway? And if you're missing both, surely it's somewhat less > painful to walk around with a USB CDROM drive than to walk around with a > pair of boot floppies? Most embedded deployments don't have a floppy OR a CDROM OR an accessible USB port; they have a custom case fab that bolts over anything not used in the product itself; that's if they even populate the connectors from the motherboard vendor at all, instead of saving money on connectors. To upgrade them, you have to vnconfig a device on the floppy image, extract the mfsroot, vnconfig *another* device on that, mount it up, and copy off the sysinstall. Then you can copy the sysinstall over NFS, NFS mount the CDROM from a second machine, and then run the sysinstall and tell it to "install from local drive", but give it the NFS volume, instead. -- Terry
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