Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:00:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bob Fobian <Bob_Fobian@bausch.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808131259320.11633-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000A8D3C.CE21301@bausch.com>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Bob Fobian wrote:
> This is very confusing....what I want is simply the files to install
> FreeBSD onto my computer at home. I am at work now on a T1 and can get
> the files about 50,000 times faster than I could at home, however the
> "target" computer is at my house, I was planning on using the parallel
> zip drive here to transport the files home, and do the install there,
> what can I do, the installation is saying the boot disk will search my
> computer for hardware and then walk me thru menus, why would I want it
> to search this computer? I need it on my home computer.
The boot floppy does not support parallel Zip drives.
Some thoughts:
1. Take the home machine to work. :)
2. If the home machine has a DOS partition, you can download the files to
there; see the LAYOUT.TXT and INSTALL.TXT files for info on how to
layout the files on the DOS partition.
3. Download the files via modem (slow).
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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