From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 4 23:47:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25511 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:47:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wankers.net (user-37kbt56.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.244.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25471 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dex@wankers.net) Received: from localhost (dex@localhost.mindspring.com [127.0.0.1]) by wankers.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA27927; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 02:49:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dex@wankers.net) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 02:49:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Dexnation Holodream X-Sender: dex@localhost To: Chris Hill cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chris Hill wrote: [blah blah blah] > >however one does need to have access to a working > >system to create a boot floppy on. > > A working *DOS* system. Quite true, and easy enough to work around. The basic install docs actually tell you how to do it several ways, including using dd. My first fbsd 2.2.2 machine was done with a set of disks I dd'd under Solaris 2.6 x86 (pre-release, as I was working on it @ Sun). I did a far earlier install, once, but I don't recall what version, and netbsd was still under active development at the time (3-4 years ago). In those days, things weren't nearly as easy. $.02 refunds available. -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message