From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 05:48:42 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 64BA037B404 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8181943F85 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aziegenfus@mindspring.com) Received: from dialup-67.74.225.34.dial1.baltimore1.level3.net ([67.74.225.34] helo=opus.arz.com) by smtp6.mindspring.com with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19hTuB-0000Zx-00 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:48:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:48:33 -0400 From: Allen Ziegenfus To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030729084833.5ea7266e.aziegenfus@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <16166.26507.378358.621129@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <20030729081034.257a9b92.aziegenfus@mindspring.com> <16166.26507.378358.621129@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.9; alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:48:42 -0000 Ah good point. Thank you! Allen On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:43 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --