From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 23 8:31:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA5837B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13njZW-0005j7-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:31:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:31:33 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no floppy Message-ID: <20001023113133.D20985@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alex@astro.su.se on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:58:00PM +0200 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexey Koptsevich probably said: > Just wondering, will I be able to install FreeBSD on IBM ThinkPad which > has no floppy drive but has bootable CD drive? Or it is worthy considering > USB floppy option? USB floppy will only work if the system has support for booting from it (like the newer VAIOs). Bootable CDROMs of FreeBSD should work fine, however. The Walnut Creek CDs are bootable or you can make your own. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message