From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 16 9: 3:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from psychotic.aberrant.org (psychotic.aberrant.org [64.81.134.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E6437B491 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:03:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from seth@localhost) by psychotic.aberrant.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA75149 for freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:03:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from seth) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:03:51 -0500 From: Seth To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BOOTING instructions Message-ID: <20010216120351.A75122@psychotic.aberrant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org All - If I were to summarize the options for STARTING the sysinstall process from a system that did not currently have FreeBSD on it, would it be fair to say that there are two methods as follows? - via a bootable CD (assuming the PC supports this) - via kern.flp / mfsroot.flp (or the single 2.88MB disk image) I don't want to get into the source media choices just yet, but I just wanted to make sure that I've covered the initial booting options. If there are other methods, are they (a) recommended, (b) commonly used? Regardless of the answers to those questions, I'd like to include them, but I want to highlight the scenarios that most users will be addressing. Thanks for any input, Seth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message