From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 10:30:49 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 6ADEA37B408 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost) by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9HHUhR99395; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:30:43 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kirchner X-X-Sender: To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: Subject: RE: Where is sysinstall? In-Reply-To: <00a301c15728$684bf000$6600000a@columbia> Message-ID: <20011017102733.O85958-100000@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: > There are those of us out here that don't have that option. > > Again, there are those of us that don't have this option. I find it a > waste of hardware to keep a perfectly good floppy drive in a server, > especially when it never gets used in normal operations. Okay, however without a bootable CD-ROM that self-limits you with one option for booting - your hard drive. > > c) be able to mount the CD onto your current system and run sysinstall > from > > that. I was incorrect about this, not having used the CDs for years. I've downloaded the 4.4-release ISO image and I do not see the sysinstall binary there. What I'd suggest now is copying the kernel off the CD to your drive's / directory, naming it something like /installkernel, and then booting via that from your console (or by editing /boot/loader.conf if you don't have a keyboard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message