From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 14:29:40 2003 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 D5A3737B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:29:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx20a.rmci.net (mx20a.rmci.net [205.162.184.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0518243F93 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from massey@rmci.net) Received: (qmail 7916 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 22:29:36 -0000 Received: from webmaila.rmci.net (HELO rmci.net) (205.162.184.92) by mx20.rmci.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2003 22:29:36 -0000 Received: from 216.222.104.2 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user massey@rmci.net) by webmail.velocitus.net with HTTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:29:36 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3712.216.222.104.2.1046384976.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:29:36 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: Floppy installalation - But From: To: In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: , Reply-To: massey@rmci.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 My CD ROM and Floppy drive are in the same spot. FTP , CABLE , HEADLESS will not Work. 4 sets of cables, 20 disks later nothing has changed, cept my grey hair. So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so far as I can see. No CD No CABLE No Nothing but floppies So I need to know is the /BASE in 5.0 the same as /BIN in 4.7 so I can start rolling out floppies. Once I have an install I am sure the cd and all the rest will be fine since it worked fine with RH. > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:16:16 > massey wrote: > >> Is there a way to do a min install with floppies and then > use >> /stand/sysinstall to finish it off? > > I know this isn't _specifically_ what you're asking, but I thought I saw > a previous reply that was similar. > > When I have a machine that won't boot to cdrom, I download > boot floppy images for the latest release (in your case that > would be 5.0r), and the first iso image for that release. > > I would then boot from the kern.flp disk, and when prompted, > proceed to the mfsroot.flp disk. > > That gets me through the kernel config and into sysinstall. > Via sysinstall, I can chose the media from which the rest of > the install will be retrieved, ie ftp, cdrom, etc. I then > choose cdrom, making sure the cdrom is in the drive, and... > > I'm not an expert, but I don't know of another way to do a > minimum install "from floppies", unless you're looking for > picobsd or something. That does not, however, mean that > there is no other way to do it, I just don't know about it. > I truly hope that this helps. Good luck. > > > Joshua Lokken > > > Need a new email address that people can remember > Check out the new EudoraMail at > http://www.eudoramail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message