From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 1:34:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5024A37B401; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0216443E75; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0084.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.84] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 183uUZ-00072u-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:34:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB50C00.8CFA03A9@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:27:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juli Mallett Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! References: <15328.1035268433@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021022003201.A32311@FreeBSD.org> <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com> <20021022004128.A33488@FreeBSD.org> <3DB506B4.7111B592@mindspring.com> <20021022011822.A35944@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juli Mallett wrote: > If I wanted to do this, I could, but it would not give me a clean > 5.0 install, and it is also not that simple at this time, as (afaict) > kern.disks is required by sysinstall, which 4.x doesn't support... > And even then, I'd have to blow away everything except /tmp first, > which is a hell of a lot of fun, especially when it (often) doesn't > work... If you want a *clean* 5.0 install, you will have to burn a CDROM, mount up a disk to be the target of a "make installworld", or use PXE. Period. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message