Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:35:57 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: install FreeBSS 6 from an existing filesystem? Message-ID: <20060211233557.22237ccc.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hmm, I think I am missing something here. Trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 (yeah, release, but will upgrade to -stable once I get it installed) on this old laptop (HP OmniBook 5500CT), which has no CD-ROM drive, and no usb. On top of that, the floppies of 6.0-RELEASE don't detect the PC cards properly, so my network card doesn't work. The laptop has a FreeBSD-4.11 install on slice 1 of the disk, and the other half is free for my 6.0 installation. No spare place for a msdos partition. Fine, I'll try to install from an existing filesystem then. In 4.11, I download the distributions to a directory on /usr (/usr/fbsd6), which is the /dev/ad0s1g partition. After that I boot the 6.0 installation floppies, and try to install. When I get to the "select media" stage, I select "install from an existing filesystem" (or something like that), but it only asks me for a path. Do I have to mount my filesystem manually first? Isn't that a bit user unfriendly at this stage? -- Yours, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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