From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 18:10:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DDC14CF4 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:10:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (root@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00592; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:09:28 -0600 (CST) From: charon@freethought.org Received: from broad-208-049 (broad-208-049.rh.uchicago.edu [128.135.208.49]) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA19454; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:09:22 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991202200900.00a14430@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> X-Sender: dbsypher@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 20:09:00 -0600 To: Wilfredo Crespo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991202205758.0095f7c0@popd.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:59 PM 12/2/99 -0500, Wilfredo Crespo wrote: > Hello, I read in the Installation part of the handbook, that there is an >Install.bat that will boot the kernel from MSDOS and kick me into the >install. Does this mean that, I can install freebsd on my laptop, that has >a swap port in which only a floppy or CDROM can be in at any one time? I'm not sure, but can you boot from a CDROM? If so, that'd be the easiest way to install from CD's. (Look in your BIOS settings to see if you can change the boot order and put CDROM first.) -Charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message