From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 6 20:30:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA78637B406 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f573TvO97769; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: installing via wireless In-Reply-To: <200106070320.f573K5U86757@lists.unixathome.org> "from Dan Langille at Jun 6, 2001 11:20:03 pm" To: dan@langille.org Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille writes: | Some of you have have read about my install of FreeBSD over a | wireless NIC (http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php). Is this | type of install something which is useful? | | I ask because I'm wondering if there's any work going on at the moment | in this area. The only way I could get FreeBSD installed on my laptop | was via wireless. And the only way I could do that was with a custom | mfsroot.flp. Is there another way? Have I missed something? Should | what John Van Boxtel has done be taken further and incorporated into | FreeBSD? Eventually you should be able to this via ifconfig. You might try a floppy from a -current snapshot server. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message