From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 1 14:25:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC33D37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3F043E4A for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA1MPQCE011869; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA1MOBWM011844; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:24:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:24:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Fred Clift Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 Message-ID: <20021101222411.GA11787@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Fred Clift , alpha@freebsd.org References: <20021101211647.GA11031@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:11:32PM -0700, Fred Clift wrote: > So the two options off hand will be boot from CD or boot from temp hard > disk? One shouldn't have to use a temp hard drive. You should be able to 'dd' the install image onto your destination hard drive and then once the installation is started, install for real on that same hard drive. > Are there other, (though perhaps painful) options? I'm somewhat concerned > that I'm going to have to open up my box and put a hard disk in it just to > do an install... That is the live of commercial Unix installs for quite some time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message