From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 12:47:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linuxbear.hip.berkeley.edu (linuxbear.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.130.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A6F15252 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear@linuxbear.hip.berkeley.edu) Received: (from bear@localhost) by linuxbear.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/14.32.12) id MAA09617 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:43:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:43:45 -0700 From: The Bear To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing FreeBSD from DOS w/out floppy or cd Message-ID: <19990819124345.A9583@linuxbear.hip.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: bear@vividata.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install FreeBSD on a laptop which has no cd-rom and no floppy. I have seen utilities like fbsdboot.exe and I have heard about setup.exe, both of which seem like they are supposed to be able to do some sort of install from dos. I have not had any luck with fbsdboot.exe ( it always complains about invalid kernel format [ I've tried fbsdboot -D c:\kernel\kernel < a fbsd3.2 kernel, and fbsdboot -D c:\kernel\boot.flp ] ), and I have been unable to find setup.exe. I also know a utility for netbooting computer's is available, but, I doubt it would work with a pcmcia ethetnet card ( although it is ne2000 compatible ), and I would really like to avoid having to set up a bootp server ( Although I would if I have to ), does anyone know if this would work? The Laptop is a Zenith Z-note 486/66 running dos 6.2. Dos is completly useless to me, so I would like to wipe the partition, and put FBSD in it's place. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Charles Shiflett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message