From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 16 22:37:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C30E14C15 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11Gbvs-0001BM-00; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:37:12 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: dannyman Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:48:22 MST." <19990816174822.F353@stumpy.dannyland.org> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:37:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4547.934868232@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:48:22 MST, dannyman wrote: > The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but > it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p Presumably you saw the posted trick about dd'ing the floppy image to your swap partition and booting off _that_? :-) > But, on to my original question, has anybody been looking at a more > "user friendly" "upgrade the darn thing *REAL EASY*" kind of setup? > maybe invoke a networked pkg_add to run the latest sysinstall w > dependencies? Your original question? I started this thread. ;-) The best answer someone who is neither omniscient nor omnipresent can give you is I expect I'd be surprised to find that anybody was working on such a thing. Assume that further silence on the issue confirms that feeling. I've seen lots of people come up with ideas that they felt were good and worthy of lots of argument, but the ideas always seem to be all talk(1) and no diff(1). ;-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message