Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 04:04:16 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] Message-ID: <20100201040016.B46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1264905893.19953.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1539747065-1264957456=:46992 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases. > > The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't > > get MFCed to stable/7. Even if it was we're already something of a > > heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and DVD) so my plan all > > along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the > > same time drop CDs-with-packages. > > FWIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how > to read the install off a DOS device :) Still to figure out how your method - using Luigi's syslinux boot off a FAT slice on a stick - works when 7's sysinstall can't see USB disks? cheers, Ian --0-1539747065-1264957456=:46992--
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