From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 23:46:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02136 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02130 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA13749; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:46:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 23:46:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ash Yadav cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ash Yadav Subject: Re: installing on a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33 laptop In-Reply-To: <9804080824.AA11620@rachel.fxsing.ml.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 On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ash Yadav wrote: > I have been using freebsd on my desktop machine for the past few months > and am now in possesion of a compaq Contura Aero 4/33 laptop. I have the > 2.2.5 on a CD but the comapq only has a PCMCIA floppy drive. I also have > a xircom modem/ethernet card and my desktop at home acts as a gateway > for my home area network (HAN). I would ideally like to do a net ( ftp ) > install but since I have to boot up the laptop with a floppy and since > the floppy uses the PCMCIA slot I cannot have the ethernet card in it at > the same time. Well, considering that FreeBSD doesn't support Xircom ethernet cards, your problem is well, lessened. :) You can make the floppy show up by setting flag 0x1 on the fdc controller in the boot-time configuration. You probably need to do a DOS install. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message