From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 14:16:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rast.cisco.com (rast.cisco.com [171.69.187.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED08123C0 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raj@cisco.com) Received: from localhost.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by rast.cisco.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA05657 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raj@cisco.com) Message-Id: <199902241031.CAA05657@rast.cisco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD on a Libretto 110CT? X-Mailer: MH, Xemacs, X11R6, and FreeBSD from my laptop. Unbeatable! X-Quote: "Truth is not absolute. We define it every minute of every day." Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:31:49 -0800 From: Richard Johnson Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm thinking seriously of buying a Libretto 110CT and installing FreeBSD on it. I'd like to have a small DOS/Windows98 partition and then use the rest of the disk for FreeBSD. (I did this with my AST laptop and it worked just fine.) I've read that neither FreeBSD nor Linux have drivers which allow access to the Libretto PCMCIA Floppy disk, however, so I'm a little concerned about how I would get it installed. I'm thinking that probably I could to the following: 1) Use Windoze98 to defragment the disk 2) Use FIPS to split the disk and allocate a partition for FreeBSD 3) Copy all of the FreeBSD installation files I need into my DOS partition 4) Boot the FreeBSD floppy 5) Install from the DOS partition Would this plan work? I would think I could still boot from the FreeBSD boot floppy eventhough I wouldn't be able to access it once FreeBSD is running, right? Please email me directly since I'm not on this mailing list. If there is sufficient interest, I'll send a summary. Thanks for any help you can provide. /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message