Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:37:22 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (Alex Belits) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing without booting off floppy. Message-ID: <199702241537.HAA24423@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970224072000.9357A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> from "Alex Belits" at Feb 24, 97 07:24:00 am
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In some mail from Alex Belits, sie said: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Darren Reed wrote: > > > if I have freebsd running and want to install onto another HD, what can > > I run ? (can't boot from a floppy) > > Install second hard drive and boot from first one. Then format second > drive and install FreeBSD on it. Of course, if you remove first hard drive > and make former second one first, device numbers/names will change for > its slices, so be careful when configuring system. The trick to all of this is being able to run "sysinstall". Once you've installed a system, this gets deleted...is it worth keeping this around, maybe as a way to install further packages ? Darren
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