From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 26 12:22:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from supermail.mweb.co.za (supermail.mweb.co.za [196.2.53.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E0C37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [196.3.240.118] (helo=siberiyan.dyndns.org) by supermail.mweb.co.za with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15xCW5-0006ny-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:19:41 +0200 Received: by siberiyan.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB3784DB; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:23:31 +0200 (SAST) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:23:31 +0200 From: Piet Delport To: jmdupx@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q please Message-ID: <20011026212331.B17865@athalon.homenet> Mail-Followup-To: jmdupx@yahoo.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3BD70ECA.5070900@callnetuk.com> <3BD738D3.10717.385012F@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BD738D3.10717.385012F@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0 (http://www.vim.org/) X-Crypto: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6 (http://www.gnupg.org/) X-GPG-Key-ID: 0x6B191427 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7FF A540 2199 F7BF 1933 5640 CD15 0FF3 6B19 1427 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 at 21:55:31 +0100, jmdupx@yahoo.com wrote: >=20 > anyone have tips on installing without boot floppies, ie. getting the > install started without kern and mfsroot disks ? [snip] Can that machine boot off a CD-ROM? Failing that, you can also try moving the hard disk to another machine, installing it there as per usual, then moving it back and doing all your post-install configuration. --=20 Piet Delport Today's subliminal thought is: --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE72bgzzRUP82sZFCcRAjtJAJ0b5v+Ohr/ggpz1hmdtYL/Jt4dsLgCeK0VH HsIsulHcCkY6BlzgLmNDmJ8= =pdmK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message