From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 10:44:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E159C106564A for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B538FC14 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [192.168.1.117]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6455668 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:44:14 +0100 Message-ID: <4912CA7C.9050108@kukulies.org> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:44:12 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <49106440.4010906@kukulies.org> <1225813899.2734.1.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <491090CE.1090900@hdk5.net> <49109409.8030601@kukulies.org> <4911C46A.7020401@kukulies.org> <4911C93E.4090803@kukulies.org> <20081105165148.GA15560@icarus.home.lan> <49120BE4.7010009@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <49120BE4.7010009@kukulies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation from floppies - has anyone tried lately? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:44:17 -0000 In the vein of getting a way to install FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 onto my SATA IDE drive (otherwise still running 5.2.1. from IDE drives) I found in the seek of other methods to bootstrap myself, that the boot floppy hangs after asking for kern1 floppy. Could that be just bad media or could it have another cause. In other words: Has anyone tried to boot from a 7.1-BETA2 floppy set recently? Other suggestion of how to bootstrap me from 5.2.1 to 7.1 are welcome: Doing a cvs-sup ? (Is there still this method of updating FreeBSD? - I've been a while off from the front) Making my SATA drive (/dev/ar0) bootable and putting the contents of the distribution into it? -- Christoph