Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Allen Ziegenfus <aziegenfus@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chroot network install Message-ID: <16166.26507.378358.621129@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030729081034.257a9b92.aziegenfus@mindspring.com> References: <20030729081034.257a9b92.aziegenfus@mindspring.com>
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Allen Ziegenfus writes: > Hello, > > Is it possible to do a chroot install for Freebsd, > instead of using boot floppies/cdrom? I have Red Hat > 7.1 on my Alpha, and I'd like to upgrade to something > else. For debian or gentoo linux, for example, you can download > a base system, install it to a partition, chroot to it and then go > through a sequence of steps to install the rest, without having to > shutdown your existing OS. I couldn't find anything on this in the > install manual... Maybe if you were running FreeBSD already, but there is no way a linux kernel will recognize the syscalls made by the FreeBSD installation binary. > Also can I use aboot to boot FreeBSD? > No. If you want to install FreeBSD on alpha, you need to give it a disk by itself. Drew
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