Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:49:34 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: cx6x86@ix.netcom.com (Wilfredo Crespo), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Message-ID: <199912030449.WAA15254@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991202200900.00a14430@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> from "charon@freethought.org" at "Dec 2, 1999 08:09:00 pm"
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charon@freethought.org babbled:
> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 20:09:00 -0600
> To: Wilfredo Crespo <cx6x86@ix.netcom.com>, freebsd-questions@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.)
Many notebooks that have a media bay allow a configuration wherein the CDD
is in the bay, and the FDD module is connected to the parallel port by way
of a special cable. Do you know whether yours allows this? If so, you
should be able to boot from the floppy.
--
Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire
jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H)
Gerald_Dunham@dell.com (512)728-4026 (O)
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