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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:30:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Where is sysinstall?
Message-ID:  <20011017102733.O85958-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <00a301c15728$684bf000$6600000a@columbia>

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote:

> 	There are those of us out here that don't have that option.
>
> 	Again, there are those of us that don't have this option.  I find it a
> waste of hardware to keep a perfectly good floppy drive in a server,
> especially when it never gets used in normal operations.

Okay, however without a bootable CD-ROM that self-limits you with one
option for booting - your hard drive.

> > c) be able to mount the CD onto your current system and run sysinstall
> from
> > that.

I was incorrect about this, not having used the CDs for years. I've
downloaded the 4.4-release ISO image and I do not see the sysinstall
binary there. What I'd suggest now is copying the kernel off the CD to
your drive's / directory, naming it something like /installkernel, and
then booting via that from your console (or by editing /boot/loader.conf
if you don't have a keyboard)


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