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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 Upgrade gripe Date: 27 Jan 1997 01:43:40 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5ch18c$6pu@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <5cepah$936@uuneo.neosoft.com> <32EB9179.22C3@erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.120 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34517 In article <32EB9179.22C3@erols.com>, gbh@erols.com writes: >> Just got the CD-ROM the other day from Walnut Creek and decided to do the >> upgrade from 2.1.5 today. The same old aggravation with the IDE CD-ROM >> drive. Grrrr! >> >> Which brings to mind a troubling question: *why* is it necessary to use >> DOS at all to *upgrade*?... > > > Why do you need DOS? Why not boot from a floppy and continue > the installation? The boot.flp kernel won't recognize my CD-ROM, and it's impossible to mount it from sysinstall. I even tried installing from a DOS partition and it failed (write transfer error). Given FreeBSD's notorious incompatibility with large DOS disks, not too surprising, I suppose. From now on, I'm just gonna do a make world when I upgrade. Takes a bit longer, but best in the long run, I think. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |