From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 10:23:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D4C37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 10:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g58HNLU21557; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 13:23:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3D023EEC.2090809@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 13:29:16 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matt O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Laptop References: <20020608171655.12941.qmail@web11304.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Matt O'Brien wrote: > I have a question. I am not 100% certain but > have a good enough idea. I just want to know which > version of FreeBSD I need to install on my P100, 16MB > RAM Acer Laptop. I do NOT have a CD ROM drive -- only > a standard 1.44" floppy drive and also don't have a > NIC :( I don't see why you couldn't run the most recent, 4.5. How much RAM does it have? 8meg is required. > Also, what kind of installation will I need to > perform? A 1.44" floppy disk installation?? Do I > just need the mfsroot.flp and kern.flp ? Are there > any others I need? Oh sheese ... you'll need to do a floppy install. Read the installation instructions in the handbook. Floppy installs are slow, tedious, and frustrating. I did it with 3.x a few years ago because I had a lappy without CD ROM as well. Take my advice, if your time is worth anything, purchase a NIC for the lappy and save your time and sanity. Otherwise, you're looking at using 30+ floppies to do the install. My experience showed that about 10% of the floppies didn't work right and had to be recreated. Like I said, slow, tedious, and frustrating. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message