From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 21:28:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27461 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27451 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id WAA10841; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:27:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199707140427.WAA10841@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD 'OVER' Linux? To: bill@hamel.net (Bill Hamel) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:27:44 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970711081719.027758b0@chesco.com> from "Bill Hamel" at Jul 11, 97 08:17:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Hamel asked: > Please excuse my ignorance but, I have a Linux machine that I wish to > convert to BSD. There is no CDROM. > > Can I install BSD over Linux or should I wipe the drive and start over > again...? You certainly can. You can download the FreeBSD distrubtion onto your Linux system and make installation floppies if you have a LOT of patience; I used to do this when my only network connection was at work and I didn't have a network card for my computer. You can install FreeBSD directly over the internet, but I don't recommend doing this with a dial-up account; you're just too likely to loose the connection somewhere along the way. If you have a (FreeBSD supported) network card in your computer and can take it to school or work, a network installation works very nicely. I have a shared T1 at work, and do my network installations this way. You can also download the FreeBSD installation files onto an MS-DOS partition on your hard disk and access them from the FreeBSD installer later on. The fourth, and perhaps best, option is to buy an inexpensive IDE CD-ROM. My local distributor now has two brands of IDE "12x" CD-ROMS for under $60. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com