From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 9:15:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webs1.accretive-networks.net (webs1.accretive-networks.net [207.246.154.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2BB37B407 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost) by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9HGFNj99187; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kirchner X-X-Sender: To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: Subject: RE: Where is sysinstall? In-Reply-To: <00a201c15726$56d296a0$6600000a@columbia> Message-ID: <20011017091421.S85958-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > My main point of contention here is that either the CDs are incorrect, or > INSTALL.TXT on the CD is incorrect. sysinstall does not exist in an easily > accessible form on the CD, and is REQUIRED to properly upgrade the system if > you're using the CDs to perform the upgrade. > > --- Andy I can't speak for them authoritatively, but I'm betting that the CD authors expected you to either a) be able to boot off the CD, b) be able to read the CD and generate a boot floppy and use it to boot, or c) be able to mount the CD onto your current system and run sysinstall from that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message