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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:20:41 -0400
From:      "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
To:        'nathan' <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom.
Message-ID:  <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59B02604069@1UPMC-MSX6>

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seems like a simple solution. Where would I get a adapter to do this, or
would I have to construct it.
 

Roderick P. Person 
Programmer II 
Crystal Administrator 
(412)454-2616 
personrp@ccbh.com 

"If it floats your boat, it must be water." 
                                        Roddie Rod - circa 1993 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nathan [mailto:beemern@telecom.ksu.edu]
Sent: October 17, 2000 2:15 PM
To: Person, Roderick
Cc: 'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'
Subject: Re: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom.


this isn't a direct answer, but what i did recently for a 386 laptop, was to
just take the harddrive, stick it in a pc with net and/or cdrom, install
fbsd, then put back in the laptop. 

this however would require an adaptor to allow a standard ide cable to plug
into the laptop drive. 


anyway.. a suggestion.. which worked well for me 
good luck! 


"Person, Roderick" wrote: 


  

I have just been given two Digital HiNote Ultra II notebook PCs. 150Mhz
Pentiums. 


They don't have a CD-rom or modems. 


I would like to install 4.1 on them. I have FreeBSD 4.1 running on two
Desktop machines, I was wondering if there is anyway I can connect the PC
and the Notebooks via the serial ports to install from the CD on my PC. Or
am I stuck until I get an external CD-ROM. 


Roderick P. Person 
Programmer II 
Crystal Administrator 
(412)454-2616 
personrp@ccbh.com 


"If it floats your boat, it must be water." 
                                        Roddie Rod - circa 1993 
 


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