From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 22 0:39:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3585637B401; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EFB43E4A; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0084.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.84] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 183tcy-0000gD-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:39:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:33:44 -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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@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: > Anyone with a good idea on how to bootstrap a _clean_ 5.0 install to a > box with only a CDROM drive, and 4.7 CD, with broken PXE firmware, and > an IDE disk which can be thrashed, by all means tell me... I'd imagine > that I could just use the mfsroot and kernel, but there's no way for me > to disable atkbd/atkbdc that _I_ know of, in the post-userconfig world, > and my keyboard is broken at the mountroot> prompt, as the atkbdc > detected based on my usb keyboard makes neither interface work, as both > are exposed to the kernel. > > I've never had to install CURRENT on here without the ability to burn a > bootable CD, and use userconfig... Yes, it was that long ago that I did > my initial install. > > Thoughts? Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, and an ISO image has been built from sources. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message