From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 13:47:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4461C151D9 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonathanek@mindspring.com) Received: from default (user-2ive8ad.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.33.77]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA28654; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:47:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002001beea84$007b0f00$e723f7a5@default> Reply-To: "Jonathan Kopka" From: "Jonathan Kopka" To: , Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from DOS w/out floppy or cd Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:46:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed yesterday (or the day before, where does the time go?) the 3.2 release from a dos partition, but had a floppy. The 00_index.txt from the \tools directory lists a setup.exe -> defined as "Prepare for installation from a DOS partition" which you are aware of but haven't found. Perhaps ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/ Has a setup.exe (46.2K) and a setup.hlp (5.4K) -----Original Message----- From: The Bear To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:47 PM Subject: Installing FreeBSD from DOS w/out floppy or cd >I am trying to install FreeBSD on a laptop which has no cd-rom and no >floppy. I have seen utilities like fbsdboot.exe and I have heard about >setup.exe, both of which seem like they are supposed to be able to do >some sort of install from dos. > >I have not had any luck with fbsdboot.exe ( it always complains about >invalid kernel format [ I've tried fbsdboot -D c:\kernel\kernel < a fbsd3.2 >kernel, and fbsdboot -D c:\kernel\boot.flp ] ), and I have been unable >to find setup.exe. > >I also know a utility for netbooting computer's is available, but, I doubt >it would work with a pcmcia ethetnet card ( although it is ne2000 compatible ), >and I would really like to avoid having to set up a bootp server ( Although >I would if I have to ), does anyone know if this would work? > >The Laptop is a Zenith Z-note 486/66 running dos 6.2. Dos is completly >useless to me, so I would like to wipe the partition, and put FBSD in >it's place. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Charles Shiflett > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message