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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:41:28 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!
Message-ID:  <20021022004128.A33488@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:33:44AM -0700
References:  <15328.1035268433@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021022003201.A32311@FreeBSD.org> <3DB4FF58.F2784C52@mindspring.com>

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* De: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [ Data: 2002-10-22 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted! ]
> 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.

I don't have a CD burner.  I have no ability to burn a CD at all.
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