Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:55:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: newton@internode.com.au (Mark Newton) Cc: dannyman@dannyland.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system Message-ID: <199908170955.LAA20941@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199908170106.KAA43741@gizmo.internode.com.au> from Mark Newton at "Aug 17, 1999 10:36:36 am"
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As Mark Newton wrote ... > dannyman wrote: > > > 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 > > 1. boot single-user > 2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b > 3. reboot > 4. When boot1 gives you the 5-second paused baton, press any key > 5. enter "da(0,b)" at the Boot: prompt > > Us FreeBSD people can pretend we can do miniroot installs too :-) Not completely. You also need a standalone 'disklabel' before you can use a factory fresh disk. Like SunOS 3.x etc used. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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