Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:39 PM 5/9/2008, prad wrote: i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down). i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a faster machine. if necessary i suppose i

RE:: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread kenneth hatteland
-- Message: 7 Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 13:39:49 -0700 From: prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: freebsd7 on older machines To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no. it will work You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to "clone" a server from one piece of hardware to another. but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no. it will work You can use rdump this way, I have done it many many times to "clone" a server from one piece of hardware to another. but don't forget to bsdlabel -B then Boot with a live filesystem CD on the target machine Mount your partitions under /mnt/ufs.1, /mnt/ufs.2, /mnt/ufs.3 (e

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a make X server running - you will be able to remotely use X apps too. faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install via nfs. or i can setup the hd on anot

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a make X server running - you will be able to remotely use X apps too. faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install via nfs. or i can setup the hd on another machine that does su

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
prad wrote: i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down). i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and th