From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 11:40:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms1.rit.edu (vms1.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB5737B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sonic.rit.edu ([24.169.199.185]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KFXQ0KC4XIGM464L@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:39:59 EST Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:36:38 -0500 From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: hello i have a question In-reply-to: X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: "Carlos D." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020329142614.02783180@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 At 06:36 AM 3/29/02 +0000, you wrote: >hi, im writing from south america and i have a, maybe, stupid question, i >have an old thinkpad 560, and i want to know how can i install freebsd in >it without copying all the release in the hard drive, because its too >small(800mg), how can i configure the installation (supposing i begin it >from the 2 floppys) to read all the packages from another pc connected by >a paralel cable in the printer port?? its any way to do that? Hello, Carlos. :) Yes, installation using PLIP is definitely possible, though I have never done it. I believe that all you have to do is select the parallel port as the network device you wish to use for the install. There is some limited information about installing this way on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html And a direct reference to it in the FreeBSD FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#INSTALL-PLIP Let us know how it goes and if you run into trouble with it! Matt -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message