From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 6 21:12: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4CD137B403 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3121 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jun 2002 04:11:56 -0000 Received: from yahoobb218123096028.bbtec.net (HELO nebula) (218.123.96.28) by mail.gmx.net (mp010-rz3) with SMTP; 7 Jun 2002 04:11:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:11:53 +0900 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Bill Swingle , mobile@freebsd.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020607040631.GE53809@squall.waterspout.com> X-Mailpicture-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/cynik/cynik@gmx.co.uk.tiff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK From: Cyril Niklaus Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Will Andrews X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Vendredi, juin 7, 2002, at 01:06 , Will Andrews wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:30:47AM +0900, Cyril Niklaus wrote: >> Could you explain how one does this before boot? I'd like to know >> because that's part of what i need to do to get my network up, and that >> would be wonderful not to have to use floppies to copy the bin files >> (minimum install) in order to be able to do a >> from-dos-partition-install... FreeBSD at install does not recognize the >> cdrom I have, nor the ethernet card, nor the floppy drive (but boots >> fine from it). And having bought a new HD, it was a fun moment to >> reinstall. (I still have to find a way to install windows but that OT). > > Just hit spacebar when it starts the countdown for kernel > booting. Then enter the commands at the "OK" prompt. Then enter > "boot" and it should boot with the options set. You can add them > to /boot/loader.conf once you have a system fully setup. As simple as that? Grr... I should have thought of that. Thank you very much! Cyril To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message