Floppy Support

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Barney Wolff wrote:

> Question for the sysinstall gurus:  Is there any necessary relation
> between the kernel version that is booted from the floppy and the
> system version that is being installed?  That is, could one boot
> a 5.0-R floppy and then tell sysinstall to install a snapshot?  It
> would make the whole problem moot, if so.

I've used the 4.4-R floppy set to install a number of different versions
of FreeBSD, including 5.0-R and snaps. You can also boot from an older
release's CD and install the latest release.

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