From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 12:44:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E72037B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 12:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558AC43F75 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 12:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0293.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.38] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19CPPC-0006nz-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 12:44:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3EB56D3F.E49876EB@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 12:42:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <20030504020700.B3CCA37B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030504040804.GA19654@wjv.com> <20030504.063935.07172031.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4d0a637424fde5cc570be2a5df40dda9b666fa475841a1c7a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 19:44:30 -0000 "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > In message: <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> > Barney Wolff writes: > : Question for the sysinstall gurus: Is there any necessary relation > : between the kernel version that is booted from the floppy and the > : system version that is being installed? That is, could one boot > : a 5.0-R floppy and then tell sysinstall to install a snapshot? It > : would make the whole problem moot, if so. > > Yes. I've done this in the past. Me too. I've also shot my foot off with it, when perl left the base system, and you had to explicitly install it, only it wasn't an option in the hard-coded menus in the older sysinstall. As a general rule of thumb, try to keep them matched. Also note that if you are running "upgrade", and have not booted from the install media, you will need to manually update your boot blocks, if the boot blocks have changed on you, and maybe /etc/pam.conf (got locked out of a remote server when the ssh stuff changed default keys). -- Terry