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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:01:46 -0500
From: Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com>
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To: Peter Korsten <pkorsten@XS4All.nl>
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Subject: Re: How to install without a CD-ROM and without an existing installation
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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