From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 08:53:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA28957 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:53:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28905 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id DAA07869; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 03:22:15 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702241652.DAA07869@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: installing without booting off floppy. In-Reply-To: <199702241537.HAA24423@freefall.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Feb 25, 97 02:37:22 am" To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 03:22:13 +1030 (CST) Cc: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darren Reed stands accused of saying: > > 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 ? Try looking in /stand someday, or read the MOTD 8) > Darren -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[