Chroot network install

[Allen Ziegenfus]

Ah good point. Thank you!

Allen

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:43 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:

> 
> Allen Ziegenfus writes:
>  > Hello,
>  > 
>  > Is it possible to do a chroot install for Freebsd,
>  > instead of using boot floppies/cdrom? I have Red Hat
>  > 7.1 on my Alpha, and I'd like to upgrade to something
>  > else. For debian or gentoo linux, for example, you can download
>  > a base system, install it to a partition, chroot to it and then go
>  > through a sequence of steps to install the rest, without having to
>  > shutdown your existing OS. I couldn't find anything on this in the
>  > install manual...
> 
> Maybe if you were running FreeBSD already, but there is no way a linux
> kernel will recognize the syscalls made by the FreeBSD installation
> binary.
> 
>  > Also can I use aboot to boot FreeBSD? 
>  > 
> 
> No.
> 
> If you want to install FreeBSD on alpha, you need to give it a disk by
> itself.
> 
> Drew
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