From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 10:30:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.vindaloo.com (ool-182dd047.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.208.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2688337B405 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by fw.vindaloo.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f6PHUY703414; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:30:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from andale.vindaloo.com(192.168.133.3) via SMTP by fw.vindaloo.com, id smtpdQ14699; Wed Jul 25 13:30:25 2001 Received: by andale.vindaloo.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66FEF4383; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:30:16 -0400 From: Christopher Sean Hilton To: suid Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without CD/Floppy Message-ID: <20010725133015.A2691@andale.vindaloo.com> References: <20010725155421.D06C2AE08@kjell.utb.falun.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010725155421.D06C2AE08@kjell.utb.falun.se>; from suid@kjell.utb.falun.se on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:54:21PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:54:21PM +0200, suid wrote: > > I'm having a slight problem with a laptop that > i own. The problem is that it has no Floppy, > and my CDROM-drive does not support the ElTorito > extenstion. > > So my question is: > Is there some other way to install? > ( i managed to install Linux using the handy > tool loadlin to load the kernel ) > Or installing via linux? > > > Any help appreciated. > /suid > How comfortable to you feel with pulling the drive and using a 2.5" IDE to 3.5" IDE adapter? If you can do this you can do a stock install on a normal machine and then finish up using the drive re-installed in the laptop. -- Chris Hilton chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "All I was doing was trying to get home from work!" -- Rosa Parks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message