Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:33:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Neal <brian@free1.cetinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation without floppy drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309003234.3844t-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803080314.DAA21218@free1.cetinc.com>
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Brian Neal wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm very happy with FreeBSD, and I've set it up as a web server > and also for dialin for an ISP I work for...I've also used it at > home alot, but my home computer doesn't have a floppy drive anymore, You should really buy one. They're really cheap and your machine is SOL without one. :) > and I'd like to install FreeBSD. Unfortunately, I can't figure out > how to do this without the drive....I've downloaded everything to > my DOS partition, and I have a FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD that you can run the > install program from DOS and get right into things...but how to do > this with the newer version I downloaded (3.0SNAP)? Just pop in the CD and run `fbsdboot' off of the CD. You can also boot the CD directly if your BIOS supports it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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