From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 11 18:35: 3 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 7C5FF37B417 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3F9DD816BF; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:04:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:04:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ceri Davies , doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can you install from tape or can't you ? Message-ID: <20020412110456.B2344@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020411102935.GA57959@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020411102935.GA57959@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 Thursday, 11 April 2002 at 11:29:35 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:10:08AM +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". > > I've just checked out the installer, and Tape is an option there, so > I guess that it must be supported still ? That's not a valid assumption. It's possible that it simply hasn't been removed. > The only tape drive I've got here is a scsi one, and I don't have a > scsi card for any of my PCs. > I'll see if I can borrow one before someone ports FreeBSD to the > sparcstation4 :), but if anyone has a tape drive that they're in a > position to use and can check this out, then that would be cool. I'd be interested to know too. 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