From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 10 14: 0:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B2C37B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16vPCq-0007cc-00 for doc@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:00:40 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:00:40 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Can you install from tape or can't you ? Message-ID: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , doc@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On www.FreeBSD.org, right on the front page, we're telling the world that you can install FreeBSD from tape. In the FAQ, we're saying that you can, but you might have problems installing 2.1.7. So a few questions : 1) Can you install from tape ? 2) If you can, is the advice in FAQ 3.17 valid for all releases, or just for 2.1.7 ? 3) If it's just 2.1.7, is it time to nix that FAQ yet ? Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message