From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 0:41:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id D001A37B401; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:41:28 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Terry Lambert Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! Message-ID: <20021022004128.A33488@FreeBSD.org> References: <15328.1035268433@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021022003201.A32311@FreeBSD.org> <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:33:44AM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Terry Lambert [ Data: 2002-10-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ] > Juli Mallett wrote: > > Anyone with a good idea on how to bootstrap a _clean_ 5.0 install to a > > box with only a CDROM drive, and 4.7 CD, with broken PXE firmware, and > > an IDE disk which can be thrashed, by all means tell me... I'd imagine > > that I could just use the mfsroot and kernel, but there's no way for me > > to disable atkbd/atkbdc that _I_ know of, in the post-userconfig world, > > and my keyboard is broken at the mountroot> prompt, as the atkbdc > > detected based on my usb keyboard makes neither interface work, as both > > are exposed to the kernel. > > > > I've never had to install CURRENT on here without the ability to burn a > > bootable CD, and use userconfig... Yes, it was that long ago that I did > > my initial install. > > > > Thoughts? > > > Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, > and an ISO image has been built from sources. I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD at all. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message