Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:48:22 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system Message-ID: <19990816174822.F353@stumpy.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <91474.934626582@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM %2B0200 References: <19990813175110.C38502@stumpy.dannyland.org> <91474.934626582@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote: > > > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? > > Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of > which can be used to get sysinstall onto your machine. :-) The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p Or, the real point of it is, that aside from "make world from source" there is no good way to update an existing system without doing something lame like having to boot ... off ... a .... floppy ... uncompressing kernel ... please wait ... But, on to my original question, has anybody been looking at a more "user friendly" "upgrade the darn thing *REAL EASY*" kind of setup? maybe invoke a networked pkg_add to run the latest sysinstall w dependencies? -dman -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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