Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 20:08:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Installing On A Laptop! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960827200328.339C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960827162412.008df694@wallace.pinpt.com>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > I have a Commax SmartBook V-Star, It's a p133 w/ 40 Megs of ram and a 500mb > HD. (The one I want to put FBSD on). Here is my problem. > > I can either have the floppy or the CD-ROM in. But not both? > I can't swap while it's running. Ouch. No good. > I also have an external SCSI CD-ROM but the 2.1.5 boot disk does not > load my Adaptec PC-CARD scsi card and can not see the CD-ROM. The Adaptec PCCARD isn't supported on the boot floppy. I don't think it is at all anyway (unless the PCCARD support has evolved). > It also does not load my Linksys PC-CARD network card so I can't do a > network install from another computer. That's not supported by the boot floppy either. > Any suggestions? . Parallel port install with another FreeBSD box . Floppy install . Borrow someone's IBM CreditCard Ethernet or 3COM Ethernet card, and either do an FTP install off another machine with the CD mounted under anonymous ftp or directly from ftp.freebsd.org. Enable ftp 'retry' in options if you do this. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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