From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 01:08:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:08:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25566 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:07:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04107; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:33:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Neal cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation without floppy drive In-Reply-To: <199803080314.DAA21218@free1.cetinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Brian Neal wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm very happy with FreeBSD, and I've set it up as a web server > and also for dialin for an ISP I work for...I've also used it at > home alot, but my home computer doesn't have a floppy drive anymore, You should really buy one. They're really cheap and your machine is SOL without one. :) > and I'd like to install FreeBSD. Unfortunately, I can't figure out > how to do this without the drive....I've downloaded everything to > my DOS partition, and I have a FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD that you can run the > install program from DOS and get right into things...but how to do > this with the newer version I downloaded (3.0SNAP)? Just pop in the CD and run `fbsdboot' off of the CD. You can also boot the CD directly if your BIOS supports it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message