From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 16:50:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18219 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18212 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00339; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:50:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Rev. \"Thomas H. Smith\", DOA" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <31ED847B.248B@bga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Rev. "Thomas H. Smith", DOA wrote: > Hi! I've got a Toshiba laptop with a Backpack external CD-ROM > hooked to the printer port. I've already been told in no uncertaion > terms by many people that it (the CD-ROM) isn't supported by Linux. But, > here's the question...can I use rawrite or something to copy the parts of > either Linux or (preferrably) FreeBSD to a DOS partition and install it > from there? Certainly! Check out INSTALL.TXT for the complete instructions. Basically, you're going to make a \freebsd directory, then copy the dists over just like they are on the CD (ie, bin.aa-bin.cl in \freebsd\bin, etc...) > Or, could I be so lucky that maybe FreeBSD does support my > CD-ROM drive? Uh, no. > Oh, yeah, if it matters, my laptop has Win95 on it which I > have to keep. Will the two coexist? Surely, assuming you have unallocated disk space to install FreeBSD into. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major