From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 09:15:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16084 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16079 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:15:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA607; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:12:34 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970218091512.00965170@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:15:13 -0800 To: sturdee@qtm.net (Mike) From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: fresh hardware Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:41 AM 2/15/97 -0500, you wrote: >I've been looking through your site, and see you have install instuctions >for DOS.. I was wondering what i need to do to install FreeBSD on a newly >assembled computer that has not yet been booted. If I may, I couldn't contain myself; You can go to an exsisting machine and create the bsd boot floppy, or just do what I and I think what most do, and thats go ahead and install dos (make sure its 6), and get access to your cdrom drive, and do it that way. If your really masochistic you can lay dos down, and then a tcp stack (make sure you have a modem) set yourself up with a local isp, and install it over the net. In any case though, you'll need to install dos first, unless the freeBSD group has come up with something new... -Tim