As Mark Newton wrote ...
> dannyman wrote:
>
> > The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> > it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
>
> 1. boot single-user
> 2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b
> 3. reboot
> 4. When boot1 gives you the 5-se
As Mark Newton wrote ...
> dannyman wrote:
>
> > The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> > it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
>
> 1. boot single-user
> 2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b
> 3. reboot
> 4. When boot1 gives you the 5-s
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:48:22 MST, dannyman wrote:
> The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
Presumably you saw the posted trick about dd'ing the floppy image to
your swap partition and booting off _that_? :-)
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:48:22 MST, dannyman wrote:
> The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
Presumably you saw the posted trick about dd'ing the floppy image to
your swap partition and booting off _that_? :-)
dannyman wrote:
> The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
1. boot single-user
2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b
3. reboot
4. When boot1 gives you the 5-second paused baton, press any key
5. enter
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote:
>
> > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
>
> Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of
> which can be used to get sysinstall onto your machine. :
dannyman wrote:
> The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but
> it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p
1. boot single-user
2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b
3. reboot
4. When boot1 gives you the 5-second paused baton, press any key
5. enter
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote:
>
> > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
>
> Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of
> which can be used to get sysinstall onto your machine.
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote:
> dannyman wrote:
> >
> > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
>
> Do the old SunOS trick:
>
> 1. Boot single user.
>
> 2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition.
To really do the ScumOS trick, you should just assume that the swap
parti
Oh, that's incredibly cute. I've gotta remember that one.
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dannyman wrote:
>
> Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
Do the old SunOS trick:
1. Boot single user.
2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition.
3. Reboot, specifying wd(0,b)/kernel (or appropriate).
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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote:
> dannyman wrote:
> >
> > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
>
> Do the old SunOS trick:
>
> 1. Boot single user.
>
> 2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition.
To really do the ScumOS trick, you should just assume that the swap
part
Oh, that's incredibly cute. I've gotta remember that one.
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dannyman wrote:
>
> Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
Do the old SunOS trick:
1. Boot single user.
2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition.
3. Reboot, specifying wd(0,b)/kernel (or appropriate).
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote:
> Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of
which can be used to get sysinstall onto your machine. :-)
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote:
> Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of
which can be used to get sysinstall onto your machine. :-)
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On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:07:41AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> The use of /stand/sysinstall to do a live upgrade has always been
> discouraged, though it's not outright disallowed since I believe in
> every man's right to blow his feet off if he really wants to.
>
> Nonetheless, for the expe
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:07:41AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> The use of /stand/sysinstall to do a live upgrade has always been
> discouraged, though it's not outright disallowed since I believe in
> every man's right to blow his feet off if he really wants to.
>
> Nonetheless, for the exp
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:34:59 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> I suggest that it would be beneficial for you to let them shoot off
> their feet... I have used legacy sysinstall to upgrade a live
> multiuser system before and will probably do so again.
Hair-raising. :-)
Anyway, I've snuffled arou
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:34:59 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> I suggest that it would be beneficial for you to let them shoot off
> their feet... I have used legacy sysinstall to upgrade a live
> multiuser system before and will probably do so again.
Hair-raising. :-)
Anyway, I've snuffled aro
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 01:10:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> I'll feel more comfortable about letting them shoot their feet off if
> you can point out _any_ way in which it might be beneficial for them to
> do so. :-)
I suggest that it would be beneficial for you to let them shoot off
their
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 01:10:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> I'll feel more comfortable about letting them shoot their feet off if
> you can point out _any_ way in which it might be beneficial for them to
> do so. :-)
I suggest that it would be beneficial for you to let them shoot off
thei
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:08:10 CST, Wes Peters wrote:
> It's OK to let the users shoot their feet off, but they may not know
> they're about to shoot their feet off. Giving them an alert would be
> polite.
I'll feel more comfortable about letting them shoot their feet off if
you can point out _a
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:07:41 MST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
>
> > Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is
> > encouraged to boot the desired OS release's installation media and
> > select an upgrade instead of a new install.
>
> Gotcha.
>
> So you'
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:08:10 CST, Wes Peters wrote:
> It's OK to let the users shoot their feet off, but they may not know
> they're about to shoot their feet off. Giving them an alert would be
> polite.
I'll feel more comfortable about letting them shoot their feet off if
you can point out _
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:07:41 MST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
>
> > Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is
> > encouraged to boot the desired OS release's installation media and
> > select an upgrade instead of a new install.
>
> Gotcha.
>
> So you
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:07:41 MST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is
> encouraged to boot the desired OS release's installation media and
> select an upgrade instead of a new install.
Gotcha.
So you'd be interested in diffs that teach sysi
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:07:41 MST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is
> encouraged to boot the desired OS release's installation media and
> select an upgrade instead of a new install.
Gotcha.
So you'd be interested in diffs that teach sys
The use of /stand/sysinstall to do a live upgrade has always been
discouraged, though it's not outright disallowed since I believe in
every man's right to blow his feet off if he really wants to.
Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is
encouraged to boot the desired OS release
The use of /stand/sysinstall to do a live upgrade has always been
discouraged, though it's not outright disallowed since I believe in
every man's right to blow his feet off if he really wants to.
Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is
encouraged to boot the desired OS releas
Hi folks,
I've just gotten feedback from PR 12777, in which at least 2 people are
complaining that sysinstall as installed by 3.1-RELEASE can not be used
to upgrade a live machine to 3.2-RELEASE on the fly.
I've told both parties that they need to use a boot floppy with the
correct version of sy
Hi folks,
I've just gotten feedback from PR 12777, in which at least 2 people are
complaining that sysinstall as installed by 3.1-RELEASE can not be used
to upgrade a live machine to 3.2-RELEASE on the fly.
I've told both parties that they need to use a boot floppy with the
correct version of s
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