Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:37:15 EDT From: JakeCatfox@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without CD/Floppy Message-ID: <20.19c2acd0.28906bdb@aol.com>
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Here's a few suggestions: 1.) If you can get DOS to read your CDROM, you can install the way I did-- boot from a DOS Bootable CDROM, run fdisk, and make a small partition for DOS, then format it, and swap out your disc for the FreeBSD one. Then copy over all of your dirs (bin, src, xf86366, man, etc.). Then boot into FreeBSD using your bootable FreeBSD CD, and start the installation from the DOS partition. Once you're done, you can probably run /stand/sysinstall from the console, then remove the DOS partition and tell FreeBSD to use the whole disk. Then go to Custom: Commit, and pick an option. It doesn't matter what you pick-- it'll commit anyway. It may complain about errors, but just ignore them. That should take care of it. 2.) Install over the internet. You can access an FTP site using a network device from the installer, and then install from there. It will take a long time on a modem, but if you have a reasonably fast connection you should be able to do it. 3.) PLIP. You can use PLIP to connect to another machine which has the files. You may even be able to mount its cdrom device in /cdrom or /mnt and then access it like that, rather than copying the files to the hard disk. You can also use SLIP, but it's a LOT slower than PLIP, so I recommend you use PLIP if you have a cable to do it. Hope this helps, Deven "Insanely Complex Installations" Gallo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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