Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:26:26 -0700 From: Chris Landauer <cal@rush.aero.org> To: FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cal@rush.aero.org Subject: freebsd installation question - ... Message-ID: <199806242326.QAA22782@rush.aero.org>
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and it is not at all clear to me where to ask (any help will be appreciated) - i looked through the FAQ and the installation guide, and have only one remaining idea (at the end) THE PROBLEM - i have a running freebsd system and i want to upgrade to 2.2.6, but the floppy drive is broken, so i wanna boot off something else (there is no DOS on the machine at all) i can ftp the boot floppy contents to a file on the system, but i don't know how to boot from that file (oh, also, the system BIOS does not let me boot off the CD drive, which is available and working) THE IDEA - so my one remaining idea is to look up reboot or some similar boot command, to see if i can get the system to reboot from the (floppy disk boot image) file directly, or to try to intercept the boot sequence and tell it where the file can be found anyway, whether or not the idea works, i thought it would be a good thing to make the problem known, and i will also tell you the result of trying it out (btw, i am also buying a floppy disk drive, but it won't get here for a couple of days) alternative suggestions would be welcome more later, cal Dr. Christopher Landauer Aerospace Integration Science Center The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 P.O.Box 92957 Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA e-mail: cal@aero.org Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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