Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:36:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Chip Marshall <chip@jlc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install without floppy, but with HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811092135270.16987-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981106183808.A28362@hindenburg.eboai.org>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Chip Marshall wrote: > I am currently sitting next to a small box with no CD or floppy > drives, but it does have a hard drive, which I would like to get FreeBSD > onto. This isn't one of these silly Intel NetPCs? :-) If you pop one of the panels off there's a floppy connector .. just supply power and a cable, attach a floppy, and have fun. > It does have the ability to boot from a BOOTP server, which I have > configured, and it works that part correctly. The problem is, I don't > know what to have it get from the server in order to boot into a FreeBSD > installation thingy. I have tried giving it boot.flp, which it complains > is too large. What should I be having it get in order to install? I don't think we have a netbootable installer, no. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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