Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:43:45 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bsdinstall on release 8.3? Message-ID: <4FD9EA91.9050603@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201206140414.q5E4EoYS073300@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> References: <201206140414.q5E4EoYS073300@hugeraid.jetcafe.org>
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On 06/13/12 23:14, Dave Hayes wrote: > Hello. I'm trying vainly to get bsdinstall to work on FreeBSD 8.3, and > I'm wondering just what it would take to get this package to build? I > think I can put the bsdinstall from /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsdinstall under > the /usr/src/usr.sbin directory, but it needs dialog and apparently > dialog has been moved. > > Has anyone tried this yet? > > Thanks in advance. It won't work without a lot of effort. It depends on a new version of libdialog, for one, but also a number of library and kernel changes. What you *can* do is use bsdinstall to install an 8.3 system from 9.0 media by replacing its distributions tarballs with older ones. -Nathan
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