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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:27:28 +0200
From:      Mike Jackson <mj@sci.fi>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A laptop worth saving?
Message-ID:  <20040311072728.GA14364@gentoo.netauth.com>
In-Reply-To: <1078976447.14924.48.camel@toomanymirrors>
References:  <1078976447.14924.48.camel@toomanymirrors>

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jalley@toomanymirrors.homelinux.com wrote:
> Greetings all, I'm a long time unix/linux user but have been away from
> FreeBSD for about a year or so and would like to solve that personal
> fault.  I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T20) that once ran FreeBSD but
> currently sits with out floppy, OS, and at last test <TA-DA> no CDROM. 
> So my question is what are my options if I wanted to get FreeBSD running
> on it?  I have another Linux box on the LAN but that's about it.  Thanks
> for any help

You can install FreeBSD over the serial port with a null-modem cable.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html

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mike 



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