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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: installing without booting off floppy.
To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (Alex Belits)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:37:22 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970224072000.9357A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> from "Alex Belits" at Feb 24, 97 07:24:00 am
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In some mail from Alex Belits, sie said:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> > if I have freebsd running and want to install onto another HD, what can
> > I run ?  (can't boot from a floppy)
> 
> Install second hard drive and boot from first one. Then format second
> drive and install FreeBSD on it. Of course, if you remove first hard drive
> and make former second one first, device numbers/names will change for
> its slices, so be careful when configuring system.

The trick to all of this is being able to run "sysinstall".

Once you've installed a system, this gets deleted...is it worth keeping
this around, maybe as a way to install further packages ?

Darren