From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 28 20:50:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585AAF08 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:50:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FE51622 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAF758384; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:18:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id wcVa8pHQeqiW; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:18:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from terminus.icecube.wisc.edu (terminus.icecube.wisc.edu [172.16.223.97]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1746758380; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:18:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51CDEF8A.5090900@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:18:18 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130519 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenta Suzumoto Subject: Re: strange bsdinstall situation References: <20130628172124.E8163200D3@smtp.hushmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130628172124.E8163200D3@smtp.hushmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:50:03 -0000 On 06/28/13 12:21, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > Hello. I'm going to be getting an 8.2 remote system soon. I'll be upgrading it immediately to 9-STABLE and had a question about bsdinstall. This hosting provider gives me a "rescue system" which is basically an NFS/memory-mounted "virtual" system so I can manipulate the disks on the real hardware and do a custom installation. Unfortunately, their rescue system is also 8.2. I've emailed them about getting everything updated, but in the meantime.. I wanted to know if I could fetch just the "bsdinstall" binary from another system to this virtual rescue system and install using that. Are there any other dependencies I'd need? Would it work or no? This is kind of a hackish solution until the provider updates everything to something recent and supported. I'd like to do the installation without going back to the painful sysinstall days. > It actually depends rather strongly on the new dialog(1) version in 9 as well as some kernel changes in gpart. So I don't think you will have any luck. What you *can* do is just untar the distfiles onto your new disk if you wipe it first. bsdinstall doesn't do anything much fancier than that... -Nathan