Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

[Wilko Bulte]

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-second paused baton, press any key
> 5.  enter "da(0,b)" at the Boot: prompt
> 
> Us FreeBSD people can pretend we can do miniroot installs too :-)

Not completely. You also need a standalone 'disklabel' before you can
use a factory fresh disk. Like SunOS 3.x etc used. 

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