From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 6 14:02:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758A116A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:02:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3CC43D55 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:02:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aentgood@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 65so94705wri for ; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 06:02:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=TRWp8vF5ZOFySnn2Akj6TVBMZdLy3AQDskpQ8l+XS4jJ1/a2Oxl9YlBfEf9lpCvvvGOES2pMJbGt+uDnsloSPK7Z1TD8cFboWdI2mFgZ4VV2NUbkPPbp/GnOoSFCdlyo6ni7dErctm97fycoVOJFWaMxj9iQBkHUklyD8ZrYHoA= Received: by 10.54.21.61 with SMTP id 61mr119727wru; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 06:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.27.65 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:02:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7603e5d804110606022591aa2c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:02:49 +0000 From: Wouter van Rooij To: Mark Probert , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20041159653.249650@hobbes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041159653.249650@hobbes> Subject: Re: Install on a laptop -- no CD or floppy X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Wouter van Rooij List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:02:50 -0000 > Any suggestions as to the best way to proceed? You can buy a cable, so you can put your laptop hd into a normal pc, or you can do a pxe boot. This means that you boot the laptop over the network. A good FAQ: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/pxe/ Hope this helped you.