From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 16 6: 8:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB030153B8 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 06:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13139; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:08:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10858; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:07:36 +0100 Message-ID: <36EE6632.F442A149@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:09:54 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew J Hughes Cc: Edwin Gustafson , lyons , jcostain@ebci.ca, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query / Laptop Install References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew J Hughes wrote: > > I was under the impression that it was possible to install it over a > parallel port connection ? Does that sound familliar to anyone else ? It does ring a bell. There is something called PLIP for IP over a parallel port. I have seen it with some Linux dists. Don't know if FreeBSD supports it, probably it does, let alone that you can install using it. You could try some of the boot disks and see what choices of medium they offer. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message