From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 10:34:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D88E16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB1743D39 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2BIYbWj029070; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:34:37 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id i2BIYb9f029068; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:34:37 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:34:37 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- Message-ID: <20040311183437.GH1378@alzatex.com> References: <1078976447.14924.48.camel@toomanymirrors> <1079017709.14924.56.camel@toomanymirrors> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGu/vTNewDGZ7tmp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1079017709.14924.56.camel@toomanymirrors> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: A laptop worth saving? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:34:39 -0000 --MGu/vTNewDGZ7tmp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:08:29AM -0500, -=3D{|TooManyMirrors|}=3D- wrote: > Thank you for all the responces, as recomended i will probably try to > get ahold of a usb floppy or cdrom and try that, but I wanted to know if > anyone knew anything about setting up a tftp server on this linux box to > load the installer. Like many laptops the bios has a boot on lan option > and I guess I wanted to see how hard it would be to use that feature to > load an installer. However i assume it's not as easy as just directing > the tftp server to a floppy disc image. I have done a pxe boot over the network before and have succefully gotten linux to load using a tftp server. This could easily be done with a linux install program too, but I've never gotten around to doing this in freebsd before, but I'm certain it's possible. Though, getting the pxe boot to work right did take some effort. >=20 > --=20 > -=3D{|TooManyMirrors|}=3D- > !DSPAM:4050824b265025655517531! --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C =20 --MGu/vTNewDGZ7tmp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAULE9+vN6RuSjKAwRAnyAAKC35rp3T6zYqaDmhL05uQvj4oaz0QCgjqiA 5+j9PRn4+COOuNkJ2NXdKMg= =YAE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGu/vTNewDGZ7tmp--