From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 20:10:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D03516A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:10:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp9.wanadoo.fr (smtp9.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB7843D2D for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:10:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0904.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 786C024001AE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:10:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0904.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4DB4124001A6 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:10:10 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050119201010318.4DB4124001A6@mwinf0904.wanadoo.fr Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:10:09 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <515597134.20050119211009@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050119194228.7248.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1498696253.20050119202447@wanadoo.fr> <20050119194228.7248.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:10:11 -0000 faisal gillani writes: fg> hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz At halon fg> with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle fg> most of the time .. fg> i also have some windows server on my network but fg> thats a compulsory rather then choice . I'm gradually migrating legacy aps off my older NT server and I think it might be extremely interesting to install FreeBSD on that machine once it is free--if only I could persuade it to boot from diskette (for some reason, the diskette drive no longer seems to be recognized by the OS). It's an old HP Vectra, but like all vintage HP high-end machines, it still works perfectly, after nearly a decade of continuous use. Can anyone tell me how to install FreeBSD on a machine that is running Windows NT and refuses to boot from CD or from diskette? I don't suppose there's any magic program I could run from NT that would start a FreeBSD installation, is there? -- Anthony