From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 08:42:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA11954 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 08:42:08 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA11938 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 08:42:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA13667; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:43:38 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199506231543.LAA13667@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: Free BSD CD To: mibst14+@pitt.edu (Michael Balaga) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:43:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Balaga" at Jun 23, 95 11:28:47 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 780 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael Balaga writes: > I have a non SCSI CD drive in my PC. If I purchase the CD, using the > boot disks, can I install FreeBSD from it or add additional features > such as X-Windows? Maybe by copying the FreeBSD programs to my > hard drive? You can download the installation disk image (see ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/) put it on a floppy using the MS-DOS rawrite (also available via ftp), and then boot from it. If you watch the carefully while booting from the floppy, you can tell if FreeBSD finds your CD drive. All is not lost if the CD drive cannot be used directly by FreeBSD. You can copy the parts you want to install to an MS-DOS partition which FreeBSD can install from. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===