From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 14:04:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24663 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (smtp.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24650 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:04:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA01223; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:02:25 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199809012102.JAA01223@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: "wwoods@cybcon.com" , "Steve Friedrich" Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:02:24 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Unique question...... Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: "FreeBSD Questions" In-reply-to: <199809011951.PAA10517@laker.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Sep 98, at 15:51, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 11:57:00 -0700 (PDT), William Woods wrote: > > >What I want to do is this, blow away win95 and install freebsd. There is > >no way to make a boot floppy for it (it has no floppy drive) so, I am at > >a loss how to do this.....any ideas appreciated. [a few bits snipped] > acquire > the CDROM distribution (and preferably the book The Complete FreeBSD from > Walnut Creek (www.cdrom.com). As a newbie who bought the above book after he installed, I highly recommend buying the book BEFORE installing. It would have saved me a great deal of time and frustration. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message