Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Q: Simple installation of FreeBSD over 386bsd? Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:28:02 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <28hia2$isn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <HLSHBHWI@math.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <HLSHBHWI@math.fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Krebs <krebs@tilman.faps.uni-erlangen.de> wrote: >Hi out there, >I have a little question about the installation of FreeBSD over 386bsd PK 0.2.4 >without using the normal installation procedure with creating new disklabels >and partitions using the installation floppies! > >Shouldn't it be able to install FreeBSD with the following steps: I've created a set of scripts to do this very thing. If you wait just a teeny bit longer, the EPSILON release should be out, and then you can install the latest/greatest release, and you can look at my scripts to see how it's done. Also, for GAMMA users, there will be a simple way (much simpler than the 386BSD->FreeBSD upgrade) to upgrade from GAMMA-EPSILON, and when the final release is out there will be a way to go to the final release. Nate ps. If you're REALLY chomping at the bit to install the GAMMA release, send me some email and I can point you to the upgrade scripts. -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me