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Date:      Thu, 05 Oct 2000 22:30:30 +0200
From:      Luke Roberts <luke@roberts.nl>
To:        "Will Swank" <will_swank@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation Questions
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.2.20001005222743.00a25490@pop.roberts.nl>
In-Reply-To: <F31UR8t34nomB9ep8Z90000cf9e@hotmail.com>

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>I'm having some problems installing FreeBSD on my Toshiba Satelitte 225CDS.
>It's a 100mhz pentium laptop.  I have Windows NT installed on it now and 
>it runs very slow and crashes all the time.  My computer will not boot up 
>from the FreeBSD CD.  My laptop has interchangable drive bays which only 
>allow me to have 1 drive in at a time.  Therefore, I cannot use the CDROM 
>and the 3 1/2 floppy at the same time.  Please let me know what your 
>suggestions are on installing FreeBSD.


Can't you hookup your floppy drive to an external drive connector?
I can on my Toshiba Tecra laptop. This would let you leave your CD rom 
player in the laptop. Next boot with the two install floppies and install 
from CD.

Cheers,

Luke



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