howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

[paul van den bergen]

After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system 
reverted to a 4.8 kernel...  Not sure why, but gave up at this point...

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote:
> > Hi...
>
> snip...
>
> I stuffed up...
>
> > # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp
> > # mkdir /bootfloppy
> > # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/
>
>     ^^^^^^^^^
> does not work...
> try simply
>
> # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/

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