Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:12:25 -0400 From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: Tanguy Carrabin <carrabta@esstin.uhp-nancy.fr>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dist on floppies ? Message-ID: <01102119122502.12287@mercedes.local.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.10110181113310.51092-100000@poincare2.esstin.u-nancy.fr> References: <Pine.A41.4.05.10110181113310.51092-100000@poincare2.esstin.u-nancy.fr>
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 05:15, Tanguy Carrabin wrote: > Hi, > is there a ready-to-install distrib easily downloadable on floppies ? (for > my old 486 that doesn't have a CDrom nor an internet connection) > > Thanx, > > Tanguy > > Throw a 3Com 509 NIC in an ISA slot in that box and do the network install. 3C509's are dirt cheap and the driver works just fine. I've used quite a few 486s for mailservers, DNS servers and firewalls. BSD will also allow you to run a large (20GB or more) HD as a slave on the IDE controller. -- ---------------------------- Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com ---------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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