From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 5:46:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE8737B4CF for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eAGDkRf05303; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:46:27 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00111708482502.00344@freebsd.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:46:25 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Danny , opfor001@netscape.net Subject: Re: floppies? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Nov-00 Danny wrote: > > You can setup a modem on your 486 > then get the 2 boot disk for FreeBSD from the www.freebsd.orgt > > Then install it via the Internet > > checkout the FreeBSD handbook for more details > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Dr. MindBender wrote: >> >%_hello, >> i wanted to know if it was possible to get freeBSD on 3.5 floppy format? is >> there a folder on the ftp to download the floppy files? i have an old 486 >> machine im planning on installing it on.. it doesnt have a cd-rom drive >> please help if you can Apart from installing from the Internet (which is easy if you have the bandwidth etc) I would suggest you to rob a CDROM from another computer only for the installation. It is much, much easier than doing it from floppies. And given that you can get the iso-image on ftp://ftpfreebsd.org it also has many packages you probably want anyway. /M >> -jeff >> my email address is opfor001@netscape.net >> ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message