From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 13:43:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA6F106567E for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5131B8FC16 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:43:54 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0M5M00B0C0T0RR00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:43:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.74.20]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0M5M002ZN0SXBW10@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:43:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:43:45 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <201206140414.q5E4EoYS073300@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> To: Dave Hayes Message-id: <4FD9EA91.9050603@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.74.20 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-14, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.6.14.133619, SenderIP=76.210.74.20 References: <201206140414.q5E4EoYS073300@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120521 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bsdinstall on release 8.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:43:54 -0000 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