From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 13 13:13:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24285 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 13:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from radford.i-plus.net (root@Radford.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24277 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 13:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from totally.nutty.net (insane@totally.nutty.net [206.99.237.44]) by radford.i-plus.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA12641; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709132011.QAA12641@radford.i-plus.net> Reply-To: "Troy Settle" From: "Troy Settle" To: "Paul Dekkers" , Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD with CD in Win95 machine? Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:18:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1008.3 X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.1008.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul: Yes, it's possible to install FreeBSD via FTP from a Win95 machine. The only problem you may have, is installing packages. (I don't think win95 will handle those long file names very well) Anyways, when you're in the sysinstall utility, just select FTP as your media, and set the alternate URL to ftp://win95.ip.address/D:/ You might need to play with that URL, but I'll leave that up to you to figure out. :) -- Troy Settle Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net -----Original Message----- From: Paul Dekkers To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Saturday, September 13, 1997 6:45 AM Subject: Install FreeBSD with CD in Win95 machine? >Hi > >How can I install FreeBSD using the network by installing from a Win95 >machine? Can't use samba I think, but ftp? (I have ftp daemons for >windows, but that's a little strange I think; the path is often, ftp://d:/ >and so on, don't know if freebsd can handle that? (And, maybe there's >another, easier way) > >-- >Paul Dekkers (psd@nev.ml.org or psd@dds.nl) >N.E.V - Nescio Ergo Valeo > >Computers are like air conditioner: >Both stop working, if you open windows. > >