From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 20: 5:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7D114D29 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21250; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:04:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch To: Richard Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a Libretto 110CT? In-Reply-To: <199902241031.CAA05657@rast.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yes, I think this is the way most people do it. -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ 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." ___________________________________________________________________________ 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 > > > 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