From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 13 11:18:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF40037B66F for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.109]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6AFC; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:21:21 -0700 Message-ID: <39E6EEF0.CAB9D949@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:16:00 +0000 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Livia Admin Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone tried this? References: <20001013112858.A3299@livia.netfoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Livia Admin wrote: > > if anyone of you tried linux or installing linux... > is there a way of installing freebsd from just a DOS-prompt and hardisk, without CD-DRIVE and DISK-DRIVE. > is there something like "LOADLIN" in freebsd to just load/boot the kernel from dos? Sorry, kreaper, but you're about to be used as an example :-) In the growing debate over the continuing existance of freebsd-newbies, the number one complaint is that questions are asked. The list charter says that "finding and using resources and asking for help elsewhere" and "moral support" are okay. Some questions are certainly okay, while others are forbidden. kreaper's post straddle's the fence. On one hand he is asking a technical question on how to load FreeBSD on a certain configuration. But on the other hand he is asking for the location of the path leading to a destination. The questin was *not* "how do I install FreeBSD from a DOS prompt?", but rather "is it possible?" Now, a good netizen of -newbies would reply with a terse "yes" or "no", and a frustrated netizen would reply "don't ask questions". But would a reply on the order of "take a look at the xxx utility, it's described in the FAQ, it might be what you need" be way off base? If it is, then certainly nuke -newbies out of existance. But I don't think so. And neither do I think all list members should be punished for the misdeeds of a few (as seems to be the commonly proposed solution). As for a a LOADLIN analogue: "I don't know." -- David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message