From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 23:33:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04414 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04407 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00720; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:33:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: David Reed cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical Questions In-Reply-To: <199607311119.HAA03092@buffalo1.localnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, David Reed wrote: > I have a pentium HP without a CD ROM. The machine is attached to thin > Ethernet which in turn is directly connected to the Internet. The computer > is running Windows 3.x. In addition the computer has an FTP client and our > connection is very fast. > > How would I go about converting the machine to BSD without a CD drive? In > otherwords, is there a way of installing the Boot section while windows is > active, and then installing the full system after rebooting from the UNIX > boot section? Without a CD Drive, I can't think of alternative ways to > accomplish this task. Actually, if your ethernet card is supported, you can do an FTP install and get the software directly from the Net from ftp.freebsd.org. That's about as easy as it gets, beyond CDROM. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major