From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 14 10:20:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A0C51523E for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:20:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 57845 invoked from network); 14 Aug 1999 17:20:46 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 1999 17:20:46 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:20:46 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: nsayer@freebsd.org Cc: dannyman , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system In-Reply-To: <37B5A0AD.D9127762@quack.kfu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote: > dannyman wrote: > > > > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? > > Do the old SunOS trick: > > 1. Boot single user. > > 2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition. To really do the ScumOS trick, you should just assume that the swap partition is sd(0,0,0)b. GRRR! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message