From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 15:56:33 2002 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 C32DB37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0511143E6A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 15411 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2002 23:00:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2002 23:00:20 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.2.17) with SMTP id M2002102116001921156 ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:00:19 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9LMuUnr000717; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:56:30 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9LMuT1J061835; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200210212256.g9LMuT1J061835@axp.csl.sri.com> To: "Sm@zZ" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install question In-Reply-To: Message from "Sm@zZ" of "Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:51:06 EDT." <000101c27954$58355860$0901a8c0@bvs560> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:56:29 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett 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 I haven't done FreeBSD installs on a laptop before, but you may be able to use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot the installer and do a network install if you have a supported NIC card. Good luck, - Mike > I have an older laptop that doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM. The bay > either holds a CD Module or a Floppy module so I can't boot off the > floppies and install from the CD-ROM. > > I have installed a small DOS partition and can access my FreeBSD CD-ROM, > is there any way to invoke the install from within DOS. (RedHat has a > batch file on the CD-ROM that allows the installer to launch, is there > anything I can use to do this for FreeBSD?) > > Is it possible to boot off the floppies, switch out the Floppy module > for the CD module and then use the CD? > > Any help or ideas would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > Rich B > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message