From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 14:57:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A962C37B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@chocobo.cx) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C50435E2D8; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:57:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:57:41 -0400 From: Chip Marshall To: John Rudd Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing via USB Floppy drive? Message-ID: <20010430175741.A22919@setzer.chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx References: <3AEDDEA3.8F3C62EE@cats.ucsc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <3AEDDEA3.8F3C62EE@cats.ucsc.edu>; from jrudd@cats.ucsc.edu on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:52:35PM -0700 X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On April 30, 2001, John Rudd sent me the following: > Two gallantweb machines ( http://www.gallantry.com ) that are still > running v 1.x of their software (freebsd 2.x with some extras). I'm > thinking I want to install a normal version of freebsd on one of them, > from my FreeBSD 4.2 CD's. The boxes don't have floppy drives, cdroms, > nor any connectors for external disk media, other than USB ports (which > aren't supported by their software). [snip] > 2) buy a USB floppy drive, make 4.2 install floppies, and install that > way. > > But number 2 depends upon FreeBSD 4.2 being able to see and use USB > floppy disks. I think that the real problem is that the system BIOS needs to support booting from USB floppy devices. I've not seen one yet that supports it, but they could be out there, and I just havn't run across one yet. Have you taken a look inside the boxes? They may have connectors internally for a floppy drive, which you could hook up during the install and remove later. -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a19>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N+@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS PE Y? PGP++ t+@ 5 X R>+ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h!>++ r-- y- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message