Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 22:58:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Benjamin Gerfelder <benjamin@dante.saar.de> To: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to install without /stand/sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980523223559.25812B-100000@dante.saar.de> In-Reply-To: <199805230612.CAA23363@lucy.bedford.net>
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> **** Do this, if possible **** The easiest way is to pull the disk > and temporarily install it in a second machine. (Well, gutting a Hmm, it seems that I can't remove the disk from the laptop without taking it totally apart :( > Or /borrow/ some memory for the machine. 5 mb is probably minimum. > Some laptops use proprietary memory though. If you could get 8MB > in there for a day or two, I will /ALMOST/ guarantee a successful > installation. I've already tried to get some extra memory, but it seems that it *is* one of these proprietary memory formats. I've never seen memory chips of this size before... > I have a spare machine (8 MB 386SX). Maybe we can come up with > something. Does that laptop have ethernet? (Please say "yes"!) No ;) > How were you planning on installing? NFS? Ftp? Floppies? [shudder]. > Modem? [partial shudder]. I planned to install from floppies. I could also establish a serial connection to my linux box, what would you suggest ? > The evil scheme I am hatching would require either a network connection > of some kind or two floppy drives. How much disk do you have? I have 125 Megs of hd space in total, I planned to use 15 Megs for swap. I planned to make somehow a bootdisk that would drop me to a shell. I would then make a filesystem on the HD and copy the files of the binary distribution to it (when I boot from a floppy, is it possible that I run into serious trouble when I try to mount another floppy ?) and unpack them into their respective directories. Might it work this way ? Mfg Benjamin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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