Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:26:00 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "David Kirchner" <davidk@accretivetg.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Where is sysinstall? Message-ID: <00a301c15728$684bf000$6600000a@columbia> In-Reply-To: <20011017091421.S85958-100000@localhost>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: David Kirchner [mailto:davidk@accretivetg.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 12:15 PM > To: Andrew C. Hornback > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Where is sysinstall? > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > > My main point of contention here is that either the CDs are > incorrect, or > > INSTALL.TXT on the CD is incorrect. sysinstall does not exist > in an easily > > accessible form on the CD, and is REQUIRED to properly upgrade > the system if > > you're using the CDs to perform the upgrade. > > > > --- Andy > > I can't speak for them authoritatively, but I'm betting that the CD > authors expected you to either a) be able to boot off the CD There are those of us out here that don't have that option. > b) be able > to read the CD and generate a boot floppy and use it to boot Again, there are those of us that don't have this option. I find it a waste of hardware to keep a perfectly good floppy drive in a server, especially when it never gets used in normal operations. > c) be able to mount the CD onto your current system and run sysinstall from > that. Again... the question is, where is sysinstall on the CDs? And once again, I'll quote from INSTALL.TXT on the 4.4-RELEASE kit's CD #1: "Important: These notes assume that you are using the version of sysinstall(8) supplied with the version of FreeBSD to which you intend to upgrade. Using a mismatched version of sysinstall(8) is almost guaranteed to cause problems and has been known to leave systems in an unusable state. The most commonly made mistake in this regard is the use of an old copy of sysinstall(8) from an existing installation to upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD. This is not recommended." Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, this says that in order to upgrade to 4.4, you have to use the version of sysinstall that shipped with 4.4. Now, am I reading this incorrectly? --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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