From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 06:03:58 2004 Return-Path: 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 005F216A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from lark.auton.cs.cmu.edu (LARK.AUTON.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A174443D2D for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:03:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@lark.auton.cs.cmu.edu) Sender: dpelleg@lark.auton.cs.cmu.edu To: -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- References: <1078976447.14924.48.camel@toomanymirrors> From: Dan Pelleg Date: 11 Mar 2004 09:03:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1078976447.14924.48.camel@toomanymirrors> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: A laptop worth saving? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:03:58 -0000 -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- writes: > Greetings all, I'm a long time unix/linux user but have been away from > FreeBSD for about a year or so and would like to solve that personal > fault. I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T20) that once ran FreeBSD but > currently sits with out floppy, OS, and at last test no CDROM. > So my question is what are my options if I wanted to get FreeBSD running > on it? I have another Linux box on the LAN but that's about it. Thanks > for any help You can take the hard drive out, put it in another machine, install on it and then swap it back in. -- Dan Pelleg