From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 08:55:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01046 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server6.singular.com (server6.singular.com [204.140.208.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01041 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbarbee@singular.com) Received: from singular.com ([204.140.208.136]) by server6.singular.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-42397U400L100S0) with ESMTP id AAA351; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:57:14 -0700 Message-ID: <35927389.C5C3B528@singular.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:58:01 -0700 From: John Organization: Singular Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Landauer , FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd installation question - ... References: <199806242326.QAA22782@rush.aero.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Landauer wrote: > and it is not at all clear to me where to ask (any help will be appreciated) - > i looked through the FAQ and the installation guide, and have only one > remaining idea (at the end) > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > THE PROBLEM - i have a running freebsd system and i want to upgrade to 2.2.6, > but the floppy drive is broken, so i wanna boot off something else (there is > no DOS on the machine at all) > generally, pcs can boot off of either harddisk or floppy and that's it. > i can ftp the boot floppy contents to a file on the system, but i don't know > how to boot from that file (oh, also, the system BIOS does not let me boot off > the CD drive, which is available and working) > THE IDEA - so my one remaining idea is to look up reboot or some similar boot > command, to see if i can get the system to reboot from the (floppy disk boot > image) file directly, or to try to intercept the boot sequence and tell it > where the file can be found > > anyway, whether or not the idea works, i thought it would be a good thing to > make the problem known, and i will also tell you the result of trying it out > (btw, i am also buying a floppy disk drive, but it won't get here for a couple > of days) > floppies are only $20. it's probably an easier solution that boot off of a floppy image on harddisk > alternative suggestions would be welcome > > more later, > cal > > Dr. Christopher Landauer > Aerospace Integration Science Center > The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 > P.O.Box 92957 > Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA > e-mail: cal@aero.org > Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message