From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 20:51:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513F714D61 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA15254; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:49:34 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199912030449.WAA15254@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: Laptop 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" To: charon@freethought.org Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:49:34 -0600 (CST) Cc: cx6x86@ix.netcom.com (Wilfredo Crespo), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG charon@freethought.org babbled: > Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 20:09:00 -0600 > To: Wilfredo Crespo , 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) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message