From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 14:52:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (rumpleteazer.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D4937B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrudd@cats.ucsc.edu) Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (IDENT:jrudd@kzin.ucsc.edu [128.114.2.122]) by cats.ucsc.edu (8.9.3/8.8.4.cats-athena) with ESMTP id OAA10687 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3AEDDEA3.8F3C62EE@cats.ucsc.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:52:35 -0700 From: John Rudd Organization: CATS, UC Santa Cruz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13-0.7smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing via USB Floppy drive? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've checked a couple different places, and haven't found a conclusive answer ... so I'm sending my query here. What I have: Two gallantweb machines ( http://www.gallantry.com ) that are still running v 1.x of their software (freebsd 2.x with some extras). I'm thinking I want to install a normal version of freebsd on one of them, from my FreeBSD 4.2 CD's. The boxes don't have floppy drives, cdroms, nor any connectors for external disk media, other than USB ports (which aren't supported by their software). I'm thinking I have two options (both ways I'd be using the ftp method of install, off of my other freebsd box): 1) run /stand/sysinstall on their machine, except that part-way through doing the install that way, wouldn't I be over-writing the kernel that I'm depending upon? (note: I want to do a fresh install, not an upgrade) 2) buy a USB floppy drive, make 4.2 install floppies, and install that way. But number 2 depends upon FreeBSD 4.2 being able to see and use USB floppy disks. Any advice on how I should move forward? -- John "kzin" Rudd http://www.domain.org/users/kzin Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last. (Physics of Quarks) -----===== Kein Mitleid Fu:r MicroSoft (www.kmfms.com) ======----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message