Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:04:47 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: maryrnandi@aol.com Subject: Installing FreeBSD without floppies & without CD-ROM Message-ID: <20010212220447.A41439@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I am not a newbie but please lemme ask a newbie-type question. A friend of mine wants to cross the floor from M$ to FreeBSD. She has a laptop (God knows where this thing came from) called @Book. Yes, that is the brand name on it.=20 It was given her by a friend without a floppy drive. I do not have a CD-ROM with FreeBSD. For one this laptop's BIOS does not allow a setting where one can boot from a CD-ROM - I looked at it throroughly but it did not have, I swear.=20 Now in the absence of a floppy drive I am in a dilemna on HOWTO install FreeBSD on this thing. I can borrow an PCMCIA Ethernet card from a friend but still I am not sure how that will help me. The laptop has Win 98 running. Is there a way I can connect it to the LAN, copy the FreeBSD files into it, mangle the boot loader then kill Win98 and have it boot FreeBSD exclusively? Or will I be committing suicide? And just in case she gets bored with FreeBSD and wants to return to M$ Windows, is there a way to ensure that all this is taken into account, so that it will be a painless process??=20 TIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago... -Dan Quayle, US= =20 Vice President=20 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6iDPPA2k+MNyI/bERAi9jAKCLF0FSLOxDAbH+oWZA68Wa9k6VPQCfUnnJ dDTOs/ZEqkKNtOU+zwjKeuE= =ciUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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