From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 7 21:32:17 2004 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 1267016A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:32:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD4F43D53 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:32:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gilbert.laprise@videotron.ca) Received: from videotron.ca ([24.37.247.45]) by VL-MO-MR010.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I2300A4CL9N16@VL-MO-MR010.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:32:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:32:23 -0400 From: Gilbert Laprise In-reply-to: <1091911633.2889.0.camel@localhost> To: arden Message-id: <41154A67.5050800@videotron.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 References: <4115287F.6040802@videotron.ca> <1091911633.2889.0.camel@localhost> cc: freebsd Subject: Re: How to install FreeBSD on 2nd removable UltraBay Drive of a Dell600 NoteBook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:32:17 -0000 That might work, but with the use of floppies going rapidly obsolete I would prefer not to buy an extra floppy drive. I could use a 128MB SD card in a USB drive. However I am not sure it would be possible to format it as a bootable device and boot from it. I am not sure either that just copying the content of the kernel, root and driver floppy onto it would do the job. Gilbert arden wrote: > how about getting a usb floppy drive ? > > Arden > > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 20:07, Gilbert Laprise wrote: > >>I have Windows/XP install on my Dell 600 Notebook. Since with that >>Notebook I have the option of booting from a removable Ultrabay disk >>drive, I would like to install FreeBSD on the second drive. >> >>The problem is that in order to initiate the installation whether I do >>it using FTP, HTTP or NFS, I have to remove the 2nd drive to replace it >>with a CD/DVD or Floppy drive to boot and start the install process. It >>is during this initial phase that my notebook hardware is detected. >>Naturally at that time the 2nd drive is not in the ultrabay, so it is >>not detected, but either the floppy or CD/DVD drive is. Once the >>sysinstall program is running when I replace my boot device by the 2nd >>disk, I don't see the second drive when I try to define the partition. >> >>I have a local net with a desktop already running FreeBSD and a FreeBSG >>5.1 bootable install CD. Any suggestion how to proceed to install >>FreeBSD on the 2nd UltraBay drive of my Dell 600 Notebook. >> >>Gilbert Laprise >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > >