From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Oct 1 16:13: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3EA37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anubis.sunsite.no (cpe.atm2-0-1031176.0x50c7d49e.boanxx12.customer.tele.dk [80.199.212.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90E1F43E86 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@anubis.sunsite.no) Received: (qmail 15810 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Oct 2002 23:13:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:13:03 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tim_G=2E_B=F8rresen?= To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from swap Message-ID: <20021002011303.A15792@sunsite.no> References: <20021001225235.GA21008@diku.dk> <20021001190903.I218@locore.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021001190903.I218@locore.ca>; from jake@locore.ca on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:09:03PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > Apparently, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:52:35AM +0200, > jlouis@diku.dk said words to the effect of; > > > Is there an image from which it is possible to boot from a swap > > partition of another operating system? > > No, just for netbooting or from cdrom. Why? > > Jake > This is how it's done on OpenBSD. You dd the install image to a swap partition and boot from there. If you have a working system, this is a very easy way to install or test the latest and greatest port. Cheers Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message