From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 00:00:48 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 D80BC16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:00:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from spam2.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 337B043D3F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nospam@users.sourceforge.net) Received: (snipe 30889 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2004 08:00:44 +0900(KST) Received: from nospam@users.sourceforge.net with SpamSniper2.76 (Processed in 0.049632 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 11 Mar 2004 08:00:44 +0900(KST) X-RCPTTO: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Received: from users.sourceforge.net (cisr.snu.ac.kr [147.46.44.181]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2B7v9vJ306140 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:57:09 +0900 Message-ID: <40501CAE.8030401@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:00:46 +0900 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1078976447.14924.48.camel@toomanymirrors> <20040311072728.GA14364@gentoo.netauth.com> In-Reply-To: <20040311072728.GA14364@gentoo.netauth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: A laptop worth saving? 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: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:00:49 -0000 Mike Jackson wrote: > 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 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 But he clains to have neither a floppy drive, nor a CD-rom. I guess you need some very intelligent magic here to get FreeBSD (or any other OS) installed under such conditions, if at all possible. If the LANcard has an EEPROM, one could maybe boot via the network as a starting point for installing FreeBSD on the local harddisk. R.