From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 31 17:04:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E911065679 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708988FC0C for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0VH4GkR070503; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 04:04:17 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 04:04:16 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: <20100201040016.B46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1264905893.19953.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1539747065-1264957456=:46992" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:04:24 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1539747065-1264957456=:46992 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases. > > The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't > > get MFCed to stable/7.  Even if it was we're already something of a > > heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and DVD) so my plan all > > along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the > > same time drop CDs-with-packages. > > FWIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how > to read the install off a DOS device :) Still to figure out how your method - using Luigi's syslinux boot off a FAT slice on a stick - works when 7's sysinstall can't see USB disks? cheers, Ian --0-1539747065-1264957456=:46992--