From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 2 22:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp2.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E801237B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 22:37:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p438.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.201.38]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f635b1j21740; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:37:01 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:36:59 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Doug Russell Cc: kaltorak@quake.com.au, OpsyDopsy@netcabo.pt, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FBSD through diskettes? Message-Id: <20010703073659.2a8de839.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: References: <3B408B29.C1B47DE5@quake.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 15:10:40 -0600 (MDT) Doug Russell wrote: DR> DR> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Kal Torak wrote: DR> DR> > Joćo Fernandes wrote: DR> > > DR> > > Is there any available distribution of FBSD in diskettes? I was wondering how could I install it in a portable PC without DR> > > CDrom :-/ DR> > DR> > Considering how many disks that would take, I think it would probably DR> > be cheaper to buy a CD-Rom! :P If you have another machine to hold the distribution on then it takes four floppies, the two boot floppies and two working floppies. When sysinstall starts asking for floppies you just make them one at a time on the other box with one floppy being written while the other is read. This is faster (but more work) than using PLIP. It's been a while but IIRC the files that are not tarballs go on the first floppy made for a set. DR> Probably the best option in this case is installing via parallel port from DR> another box. It'll be much faster than floppies, and only requires a DR> cable, rather than a CD-ROM drive. :) Parallel, or PCMCIA ethernet are both much easier. -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message