Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:01:46 -0500 From: Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> To: Peter Korsten <pkorsten@XS4All.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to install without a CD-ROM and without an existing installation Message-ID: <34B7FDDA.740B@njcc.com> References: <199801092336.AAA03543@smtp1.xs4all.nl>
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Peter, Have you got a network connection from the laptop to the internet? Why not try that... If not, do it over the phone, in the time you will spend trying to figure a way around this problem, it could be installing on your machine... I did a reasonable install on a 386 over 28K dial-up overnight, I was quite impressed with the speed. A minimal install to then connect to the internet using FreeBSD would probably be quite reasonable... Ken khansen@njcc.com Peter Korsten wrote: > > This question probably belongs only on 'questions', but my experience (from > the time that I read both lists) tells me that I get a faster answer from > 'hackers', and I'd really like to know the answer fast. > > I recently got a laptop from my new employer (BT) and want to install > FreeBSD 2.2.5 on the second partition. (People who remember me from earlier > occasions will laugh their heads off by now, but it's really handy with all > the Suns lying around at my job.) > > The trouble is, I don't have a CD-ROM. I do have an Internet connection, but > I don't really feel like downloading many megabytes over a 28k8 line. > Therefore, at my job I copied the files from the bin directory in the > 2.2.5-RELEASE tree, but those are Unix files. A copy of the CD can't be > found on the website (well, that figures) and you need those files if you > want to install from an MS-DOS file system. > > Though the installation floppy can read the MS-DOS file system, I can't do > that from the holographic shell and there aren't other means to access that > file system. To install the Unix files, I first need - right, a FreeBSD > installation. > > Is there a simple solution or should I just wait, buy the CD (whereever I > can spot it here in Amsterdam) or download it for a couple of hours? > > - Peter
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