From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 1 15:18:25 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 283CB37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:18:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77C343E77 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA1NIFWQ046783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:18:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA1NIDCu080958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:18:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA1NICl8028768; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:18:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA1NIBtB028767; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:18:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:18:10 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Fred Clift Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 Message-ID: <20021101231809.GU20256@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20021101211647.GA11031@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021101150820.X7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> <20021101222411.GA11787@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021101222411.GA11787@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 02:24:11PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. My alphas boot raw harddisk images burned to CD. Just the fstab on the CD was wrong ;-). -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message