Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 16:33:02 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "wwoods@cybcon.com" <wwoods@cybcon.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unique question...... Message-ID: <35EC59FE.4292B91A@graphnet.com> References: <199809011951.PAA10517@laker.net>
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Steve Friedrich wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 11:57:00 -0700 (PDT), William Woods wrote: > > >What I want to do is this, blow away win95 and install freebsd. There is no way > >to make a boot floppy for it (it has no floppy drive) so, I am at a loss how to > >do this.....any ideas appreciated. > > Here's a couple options: > 1. Find another machine (at work? a friend?) that has DOS/Winblows or > some variant of unix on it, that also has Internet access. Connect to > www.freebsd.org and read the docs to make a boot floppy. Note that the > procedure will vary according to the system you found as a surrogate. > 2. Find another machine (at work? a friend?) that has a CDROM drive, > acquire the CDROM distribution (and preferably the book The Complete > FreeBSD from Walnut Creek (www.cdrom.com). what i would do, if buying a cdrom drive and/or a floppy drive is out of the question is just put the hard drive in another machine, install a fully functional system on there, put it back in the laptop, boot up and reconfigure the kernel (not that i know how to reconfigure a kernel ;) good luck, roman -- Roman Katsnelson <-- Unix/NT Sys.Admin. Graphnet, Inc. <-- HQ at Teaneck http://www.wait.org <-- and in the mean time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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