From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 16:35:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA07861 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:35:19 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07856 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:35:12 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02896; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 17:31:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512020031.RAA02896@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD custom bootfloppies To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 17:31:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: Seppo.Ruuskanen@axis.se, scotte@odie.center.uscs.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.usenet@roma.axis.se In-Reply-To: <199511291620.JAA20214@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 29, 95 09:20:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 617 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 1) You need 5MB of memory to install 2.1 on laptops (which means you > must have 8MB of memory) > 2) IBM models require a special boot floppy which I have for -current, > but I don't have yet for 2.1R. (I suppose I could build it today. :) > > If you don't have both of the above, you can't install FreeBSD on an IBM > laptop. If you have both of the above (which you obviously don't have), > you won't be able to install FreeBSD successfully. ^^^^^ Will? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.