From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 15:30:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D045F37B40A for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g58MLGH07028; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:21:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Bill Moran Cc: "Matt O'Brien" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Laptop In-Reply-To: <3D023EEC.2090809@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > Matt O'Brien wrote: > > I have a question. I am not 100% certain but > > have a good enough idea. I just want to know which > > version of FreeBSD I need to install on my P100, 16MB > > RAM Acer Laptop. I do NOT have a CD ROM drive -- only > > a standard 1.44" floppy drive and also don't have a > > NIC :( > > I don't see why you couldn't run the most recent, 4.5. > How much RAM does it have? 8meg is required. I thought 12MB were now required for installation? But I think he says he has 16. > > > Also, what kind of installation will I need to > > perform? A 1.44" floppy disk installation?? Do I > > just need the mfsroot.flp and kern.flp ? Are there > > any others I need? > > Oh sheese ... you'll need to do a floppy install. There's always an install from DOS, if it's running Windows with a fat partition of some kind. > Read the installation instructions in the handbook. > Floppy installs are slow, tedious, and frustrating. I > did it with 3.x a few years ago because I had a lappy > without CD ROM as well. > Take my advice, if your time is worth anything, purchase > a NIC for the lappy and save your time and sanity. > Otherwise, you're looking at using 30+ floppies to do > the install. My experience showed that about 10% of the > floppies didn't work right and had to be recreated. Like > I said, slow, tedious, and frustrating. You can install over a modem (although not a WinModem)-- Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message