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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:24:11 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0
Message-ID:  <20021101222411.GA11787@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
References:  <20021101211647.GA11031@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>

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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:11:32PM -0700, Fred Clift wrote:
> So the two options off hand will be boot from CD or boot from temp hard
> disk?

One shouldn't have to use a temp hard drive.  You should be able to 'dd'
the install image onto your destination hard drive and then once the
installation is started, install for real on that same hard drive.
 
> Are there other, (though perhaps painful) options?  I'm somewhat concerned
> that I'm going to have to open up my box and put a hard disk in it just to
> do an install...

That is the live of commercial Unix installs for quite some time.

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