Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:45:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: harsha godavari <h.godavari@shaw.ca> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppy installation Message-ID: <20020708164541.GC99653@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3D28EACA.F93B4AED@shaw.ca> References: <3D28EACA.F93B4AED@shaw.ca>
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In the last episode (Jul 07), harsha godavari said: > I would like to install FreeBSD on some 386/486 machines we have > around and pass them on to some seniors.They are mostly interested in > Emailing grand-children, a little bit of surfing and the odd > Solitaire :-) > > My problem is(apart from my being a DOS person), these computers do > not have CDRom drives and cannot boot from CDR drives. So whatever > software is required, needs to loaded from floppies. > > Is there a complete guide to floppy-installation and what files do I > download (from where :-) ) Thanks for your help. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html The boot floppy images are available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6-RELEASE , in the floppies directory. If you have ethernet cards, it'll probably be easier to boot from floppy but do a network install. Otherwise you'll have to follow the instructions in the handbook section 2.13 (Preparing Your Own Installation Media), for copying the install files to floppy. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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