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From: phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (Phillip Musumeci)
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Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 Upgrade gripe
Date: 30 Jan 1997 23:23:54 +1100
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>>>>> "Conrad" == Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> writes:
Conrad> Just got the CD-ROM the other day from Walnut Creek and decided
Conrad> to do the upgrade from 2.1.5 today. The same old aggravation
Conrad> with the IDE CD-ROM drive. Grrrr!
Conrad> Which brings to mind a troubling question: *why* is it
Conrad> necessary to use DOS at all to *upgrade*? This seems
Conrad> ridiculous to me.
One thing that you can do is copy a small portion of your CD's files into a
FREEBSD file system on your system (not a DOS file system although that
might also be OK). I suggest that you look over your BSD file systems and
find one with 25M to 30M spare, and then copy the following files
/dists/[bin,doc,info,manpages]
/dists/src/[ssys.*,CHECKSUM.MD5]
into
/my/BSD/filesystem/dists/...
By maintaining the /dists/ heirarchy, you will be able to just tell the
sysinstall that you are installing from a FreeBSD filesystem and you will
only have to specify the mount point /my/BSD/filesystem for this file
system and sysinstall will be able to find all the stuff it needs for a
Kern-Developer installation. The Kern-Developer installation, where you
get the on-line documentation, all the binaries, and just enough system
sources to recompile your kernel and get your CD working again, is what you
want.
Don't forget to specify that the existing freebsd file system is to be
mounted (and not rebuilt with the "file system nuke" command newfs!) since
you want to read the distribution files from this file system. Actually,
as you will be doing an upgrade, the sysinstall program tries to just mount
existing file systems and not rebuild (and erase) them when in upgrade
mode.
Good luck,
phillip
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