From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 05:24:52 2003 Return-Path: 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 2E9FE37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510C343FA3 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6TCOmnq007132 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h6TCOhj73252; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16166.26507.378358.621129@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:43 -0400 (EDT) To: Allen Ziegenfus In-Reply-To: <20030729081034.257a9b92.aziegenfus@mindspring.com> References: <20030729081034.257a9b92.aziegenfus@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chroot network install X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:24:52 -0000 Allen Ziegenfus writes: > Hello, > > Is it possible to do a chroot install for Freebsd, > instead of using boot floppies/cdrom? I have Red Hat > 7.1 on my Alpha, and I'd like to upgrade to something > else. For debian or gentoo linux, for example, you can download > a base system, install it to a partition, chroot to it and then go > through a sequence of steps to install the rest, without having to > shutdown your existing OS. I couldn't find anything on this in the > install manual... Maybe if you were running FreeBSD already, but there is no way a linux kernel will recognize the syscalls made by the FreeBSD installation binary. > Also can I use aboot to boot FreeBSD? > No. If you want to install FreeBSD on alpha, you need to give it a disk by itself. Drew