From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 08:19:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA27169 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:19:21 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA27161 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:19:13 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA20214; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:20:52 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:20:52 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511291620.JAA20214@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Seppo Ruuskanen Cc: scotte@odie.center.uscs.com (L. Scott Emmons), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.usenet@roma.axis.se Subject: Re: FreeBSD custom bootfloppies In-Reply-To: <199511290903.KAA13459@entii.axis.se> References: <9511281820.AA32844@odie.center.uscs.com> <199511290903.KAA13459@entii.axis.se> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I never got any answers to my questions. My problem was (and is IBM > Thinkpad 370C). I never got any further than You, my homemade > bootfloppy behaved just like Yours. BOOTMFS cant be the whole answer! I can't find the original pointer, but I hope I can infer what's going on. 1) You need 5MB of memory to install 2.1 on laptops (which means you must have 8MB of memory) 2) IBM models require a special boot floppy which I have for -current, but I don't have yet for 2.1R. (I suppose I could build it today. :) If you don't have both of the above, you can't install FreeBSD on an IBM laptop. If you have both of the above (which you obviously don't have), you won't be able to install FreeBSD successfully. Nate