Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:46:36 -0400 From: "Jonathan Kopka" <jonathanek@mindspring.com> To: <bear@vividata.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from DOS w/out floppy or cd Message-ID: <002001beea84$007b0f00$e723f7a5@default>
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I installed yesterday (or the day before, where does the time go?) the 3.2 release from a dos partition, but had a floppy. The 00_index.txt from the \tools directory lists a setup.exe -> defined as "Prepare for installation from a DOS partition" which you are aware of but haven't found. Perhaps ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/ Has a setup.exe (46.2K) and a setup.hlp (5.4K) -----Original Message----- From: The Bear <bear@linuxbear.hip.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:47 PM Subject: Installing FreeBSD from DOS w/out floppy or cd >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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