Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

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From
Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Date
14 Aug 1999 10:02:17
Subject
Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system
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37B5A0AD.D9127762@quack.kfu.com

References to
Sheldon Hearn, Jordan K. Hubbard, dannyman
Replies
David Scheidt
Referenced by
Karl Denninger

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dannyman wrote:
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> Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive?
 
Do the old SunOS trick:
 
1. Boot single user.
 
2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition.
 
3. Reboot, specifying wd(0,b)/kernel (or appropriate).
 
?
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