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On Monday 24 May 2004 06:34 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Monday 24 May 2004 06:58 am, balocom@volja.net wrote:
> > I have an older computer wich cant`t boot CD-ROM discs and I hawe
> > two ways: -to boot from the hard disc;
> > -or to boot from the floppy and instal it from CD-ROM.
> > But i have no idea how to do this.
> > Marko, Slovenia
>
> Choose your closest mirror and look at the following path
> ftp://ftp9.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/flopp
>ies

If you have a CD-ROM, this could all be on the CD and you don't need to 
download the files.

Kent

>
> You also have to choose which release you are going to install as
> part of the path.
>
> The directory has a boot.flp and mfsroot.flp. The README.TXT tells
> you how to write the images to a floppy.I always did wrote them on a
> W2K Server using ../tools/fdimage.exe.
>
> After you have loaded the 2nd floppy, you are just like you had
> booted from the CD-ROM.
>
> Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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