Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a Libretto 110CT? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902242303260.16037-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199902241031.CAA05657@rast.cisco.com>
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yes, I think this is the way most people do it. -Pat
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Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net
Systems Administrator Rush Networking
Remark made by Bertrand Meyer (inventor of the Eiffel language) at a
panel discussion at OOPSLA '89:
"COBOL programmers are destined to code COBOL for the
rest of their lives, and thereafter."
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Richard Johnson wrote:
> 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
>
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