atom feed6 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-sparc64Re: Booting from swap
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jlo...@diku.dkOct 1, 2002 3:52 pm 
Jake BurkholderOct 1, 2002 4:08 pm 
Tim G. BørresenOct 1, 2002 4:12 pm 
jlo...@diku.dkOct 1, 2002 4:14 pm 
David O'BrienOct 1, 2002 7:37 pm 
David O'BrienOct 2, 2002 8:44 am 
Subject:Re: Booting from swap
From:Tim G. Børresen (ti@sunsite.no)
Date:Oct 1, 2002 4:12:41 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-sparc64

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:

Apparently, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:52:35AM +0200, jlo@diku.dk said words to the effect of;

Is there an image from which it is possible to boot from a swap partition of another operating system?

No, just for netbooting or from cdrom. Why?

Jake

This is how it's done on OpenBSD. You dd the install image to a swap partition
and boot from there. If you have a working system, this is a very easy way to install or test the
latest and greatest port.

Cheers Tim

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