Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:33:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! Message-ID: <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com> References: <15328.1035268433@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021022003201.A32311@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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