From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 15 20:28: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from canberra.worldwide.lemis.com (CPE-203-51-27-136.nsw.bigpond.net.au [203.51.27.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180C737B419 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canberra.worldwide.lemis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canberra.worldwide.lemis.com (8.12.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3G3Pvkr000871; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:25:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog@canberra.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by canberra.worldwide.lemis.com (8.12.3/8.12.2/Submit) id g3G3Ps5o000870; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:25:54 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:25:53 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Johann Frisch Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can you install from tape or can't you ? Message-ID: <20020416132553.C489@canberra.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020415152934.E977937B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20020415152934.E977937B405@hub.freebsd.org>; from jrf@subdimension.com on Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:29:34AM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 15 April 2002 at 8:29:34 -0700, Johann Frisch wrote: > On 11 Apr 2002, you wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 10 April 2002 at 22:00:40 +0100, Ceri Davies >> wrote: >>> >>> On www.FreeBSD.org, right on the front page, we're telling >>> the world that you can install FreeBSD from tape. >>> >>> In the FAQ, we're saying that you can, but you might have >>> problems installing 2.1.7. >>> >>> So a few questions : >>> >>> 1) Can you install from tape ? >>> >>> 2) If you can, is the advice in FAQ 3.17 valid for all >>> releases, or >>> just for 2.1.7 ? >>> >>> 3) If it's just 2.1.7, is it time to nix that FAQ yet ? >> >> I've decided that it probably doesn't work. I'm pretty sure >> that nobody has tried in a long time. The safest thing to do >> would obviously be to try it and either succeed or know that >> the failure was due to the fact that it's no longer >> functional. (...) > > Ok, I just tried to install 4.5-RELEASE from tape (5.0-DP1 does not > run on my test machine). I chose a very minimal install, only the > bin distribution, but it worked flawlessly. So IMHO there is no > need to update the web page, FreeBSD can still be installed from tape. > About the FAQ 3.17: I did not use any special options for tar, just > plain simple "tar cv bin". Good to know. Thanks for the test. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message