Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:56:04 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Dragon Knight" <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 CD Message-ID: <199811102256.QAA12285@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Dragon Knight" <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:32:33 MST." <003901be0cfa$0a8fb4e0$0100005a@dragon.dtgnet.com>
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"Dragon Knight" writes: > Ummm... can't burn stuff with Rockridge extentions > under windows... ;) Why not? What crumby software are you using? (ok, we already know Windows is one...) > I also have a P75 here w/ 400Megs off HDD space > that has 2.2.6-RELEASE on it. my CD-R is an IDE > model. would it be easier to just install FreeBSD > on 2 gigs or so of this machine and burn the CD > from my DOS partition or cvsup to 3.0 on my little > machine and install over the network? Why don't you just shoot a copy of the 3.0 stuff over to the 2G disk, create a boot floppy, boot said boot floppy, then point it to the partition with the rest of 3.0 on it and install disk to disk? If the network is fast enough for you, you could install directly from WC or a mirror. Or its pretty easy to network install off one of your own machines. I have a 4MB 386SX16 in a luggable case (plasma display folds down and everything!) with a minimal 2.1.0 installed on its 850MB IDE HD. I sorta think of this machine as a "network cdrom" altho it doesn't have a CDROM, it does have the worlds worst (worst that actually works) 8 bit 3-Com ethernet card. Perfectly good for doing network installs (if you remember to select "slow NFS" as 1k network packets are the limit for this card and system). Perfectly good system to haul to a friend's house for an installation party back in the bad old days before I had access to a CD-R. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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