From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 10 18:40:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E04837B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 636D8816DA; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:10:08 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:10:08 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ceri Davies Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can you install from tape or can't you ? Message-ID: <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Wednesday, 10 April 2002 at 22:00:40 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > 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 ? I've decided that it probably doesn't work. I'm pretty sure that nobody has tried in a long time. The safest thing to do would obviously be to try it and either succeed or know that the failure was due to the fact that it's no longer functional. The second safest thing to do would be to say that it's no longer "supported". I've taken the corresponding info out of "The Complete FreeBSD". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message