From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 08:36:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DF116A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:36:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6A043D41 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j188aaGf030955 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:36:37 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j188aa39030953 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:36:36 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:36:36 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050208083636.GD8619@alzatex.com> References: <1498696253.20050119202447@wanadoo.fr> <20050119194228.7248.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> <515597134.20050119211009@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <515597134.20050119211009@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:36:39 -0000 On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > faisal gillani writes: > > fg> hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz At halon > fg> with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > fg> most of the time .. > fg> i also have some windows server on my network but > fg> thats a compulsory rather then choice . > > I'm gradually migrating legacy aps off my older NT server and I think it > might be extremely interesting to install FreeBSD on that machine once > it is free--if only I could persuade it to boot from diskette (for some > reason, the diskette drive no longer seems to be recognized by the OS). > It's an old HP Vectra, but like all vintage HP high-end machines, it > still works perfectly, after nearly a decade of continuous use. > > Can anyone tell me how to install FreeBSD on a machine that is running > Windows NT and refuses to boot from CD or from diskette? I don't > suppose there's any magic program I could run from NT that would start a > FreeBSD installation, is there? I've used loadlin before to boot up a linux installer when I had neither a floppy driver nor a cdrom drive to boot from, it works quite well. For freebsd, I'm not sure if there is a similar program or not, but one possibility would be to use loadlin to start a basic linux environment, then use linux to install the freebsd bootloader to the hard drive and start the freebsd installer. > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C