From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 11:39:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d08.mx.aol.com (imo-d08.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3E737B405 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JakeCatfox@aol.com) Received: from JakeCatfox@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id n.73.10745f2f (18251) for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:39:13 -0400 (EDT) From: JakeCatfox@aol.com Message-ID: <73.10745f2f.28906c51@aol.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:39:13 EDT Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without CD/Floppy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Note that you MAY be able to use PLIP to connect to a Linux machine. I don't know, as I have not used PLIP before. You should be able to connect to another FreeBSD machine just fine, though. In fact, you can also connect to a Win98 machine. In a message dated 7/25/01 12:55:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, suid@kjell.utb.falun.se writes: << I'm having a slight problem with a laptop that i own. The problem is that it has no Floppy, and my CDROM-drive does not support the ElTorito extenstion. So my question is: Is there some other way to install? ( i managed to install Linux using the handy tool loadlin to load the kernel ) Or installing via linux? Any help appreciated. /suid >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message