From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 17:12:22 2003 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 1998216A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3300143FE5 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HLW000UZDUQ9K@smtp03.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:11:15 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h8S0CJQL008470;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h8S0CJAM008469; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:12:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:12:19 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: To: charles pelletier Message-id: <20030928001219.GH94873@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppydisk sized freebsd 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: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:12:22 -0000 On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:11:49PM -0500, charles pelletier wrote: > so i've got a laptop w/o a cdrom and i want to install bsd on it. before > anyone asks, no, i don't have a reliable INET connection. I took a look at > the floppy-freebsd page but i'm still not convinced on it. is there a > reliable version in existence or should i not even bother at this point. There are two distribution based of FreeBSD (not couting the apple version). It obviuse that the floppy version can't offer you the same as FreeBSD it self of the CDrom version. floppy version: http://www.picobsd.org CDrom version: http://www.freesbie.org -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/