Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:41:32 +1100 From: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR Message-ID: <200312161141.32743.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200312121725.55208.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> References: <200312121717.27412.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <200312121725.55208.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
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After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system reverted to a 4.8 kernel... Not sure why, but gave up at this point... On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > > Hi... > > snip... > > I stuffed up... > > > # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp > > # mkdir /bootfloppy > > # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ > > ^^^^^^^^^ > does not work... > try simply > > # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/ -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824
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