Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:29:35 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can you install from tape or can't you ? Message-ID: <20020411102935.GA57959@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020410210040.GA73523@submonkey.net> <20020411111008.E54120@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:10:08AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 April 2002 at 22:00:40 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > On www.FreeBSD.org, right on the front page, we're telling the world > > that you can install FreeBSD from tape. > > > > In the FAQ, we're saying that you can, but you might have problems > > installing 2.1.7. > > > > So a few questions : > > > > 1) Can you install from tape ? > > > > 2) If you can, is the advice in FAQ 3.17 valid for all releases, or > > just for 2.1.7 ? > > > > 3) If it's just 2.1.7, is it time to nix that FAQ yet ? > > I've decided that it probably doesn't work. I'm pretty sure that > nobody has tried in a long time. The safest thing to do would > obviously be to try it and either succeed or know that the failure was > due to the fact that it's no longer functional. The second safest > thing to do would be to say that it's no longer "supported". I've > taken the corresponding info out of "The Complete FreeBSD". I've just checked out the installer, and Tape is an option there, so I guess that it must be supported still ? The only tape drive I've got here is a scsi one, and I don't have a scsi card for any of my PCs. I'll see if I can borrow one before someone ports FreeBSD to the sparcstation4 :), but if anyone has a tape drive that they're in a position to use and can check this out, then that would be cool. I'm not so specifically interested in question 1, as I'm sure the answer is yes, but more in the question of whether 2.1.7 required special treament, or whether the blocksize issue in FAQ3.17 applies to all releases equally. I either want to get rid of the question, or get rid of the 2.1.7 reference therein, unless there are good reasons not to do so. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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