From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 10:59:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA21731 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA21725 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA16662; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:57:01 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970218105937.00995da0@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:59:38 -0800 To: "Stephen F. Combs" From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: fresh hardware Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:43 PM 2/18/97 -0500, you wrote: >I've never used DOS to install FreeBSD on a computer! (Of course, I've >got a Sun at work which I use to create the BOOT Disk and the FIXIT disk). >As long as you have a method of creating the boot disk (i.e. another >PC or a workstation with a 3.5" floppy) you can just create the boot disk >and then boot it and follow the std instructions! My PC at home hasn't >had DOS on it anywhere in over 5 years! As I said. But I believe if you have no other means, installing dos is by far the easiest. >> You can go to an exsisting machine and create the bsd boot floppy, [yadda yadda blah blah]