From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 18:11:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E0037B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.143]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id VAA24441; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:11:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id VAA06336; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:11:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:11:30 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: "Dr. MindBender" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, opfor001@netscape.net Subject: Re: floppies? In-Reply-To: <000801c04f6f$a9b13120$6f28c9cd@oemcomputer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please send mail from the address you want us to answer to. There is a way to do that included in the install instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES Like it recommends, try to find any other way than that to do the install. Borrow a cd drive if you have to. Good luck, Tim ----------------------------------------------- "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -Gerald Ford ----------------------------------------------- On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dr. MindBender wrote: > hello, > i wanted to know if it was possible to get freeBSD on 3.5 floppy format? is there a folder on the ftp to download the floppy files? i have an old 486 machine im planning on installing it on.. it doesnt have a cd-rom drive please help if you can > -jeff > my email address is opfor001@netscape.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message