From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 16 13: 6:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D21A37B67D for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1GL6KH98374; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Seth Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BOOTING instructions In-Reply-To: Message from Seth of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:03:51 EST." <20010216120351.A75122@psychotic.aberrant.org> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:06:20 -0800 Message-ID: <98370.982357580@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > All - > > If I were to summarize the options for STARTING the sysinstall process from > a system that did not currently have FreeBSD on it, would it be fair to say > that there are two methods as follows? > > - via a bootable CD (assuming the PC supports this) > - via kern.flp / mfsroot.flp (or the single 2.88MB disk image) I wouldn't even bother mentioning the 2.88MB disk image since 2.88MB disks are rare as heck. Otherwise, yes, this is a good "most common case" list. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message