Thanx for the pointers it looks like i'm up and running.

Thanx
Paul


Jason Wright wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:50:54PM -0400, Paul Khavkine wrote:
> > Where are the docs on manual install ?
> > I guess i should make slice/disklabel for the drive
> > Mount it, untar etc and base, then how do i install the bootstrap code ?
> >
> The basic steps are to:
>         1. boot from nfs root (base/etc untarred on freebsd system)
>         2. disklabel the disk
>         3. newfs the paritions created in #2
>         4. mount the newfs'd partitions, eg. on /mnt/...
>         5. untar all desired sets
>         6. copy kernel to root partition
>         7. copy ofwboot to root partition
>         8. make devices (cd .../dev && ./MAKEDEV all)
>         9. use installboot(8) to install bootblk
>         10. figure out anything I left out.
>
> Now, I've probably left some steps out, but that may leave you with
> a system you can at least boot.  The next step is configuring rc.conf
> and friends after you've booted successfully from the disk.
>
> --Jason L. Wright

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