From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 10 18:49:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547DA37B404; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (c6.depaul-inst.pittsburgh.pa.us [192.168.1.6]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3B1nn632966; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:49:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:57:44 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: setantae@submonkey.net, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can you install from tape or can't you ? Message-Id: <20020410215744.1dc9e5ec.darklogik@pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:10:08 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote: > 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 > To throw my thoughts in, I don't think, with the computer systems around today, that many people will ever try. If so, i'm sure someone would have either reported failure or success... -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message