Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:56:34 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sony vaio Message-ID: <20001219125634.E6339@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <20001219102852.A2186@socrates.sistina.com>; from blutgens@sistina.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:28:52AM -0600 References: <20001219102852.A2186@socrates.sistina.com>
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:28:52AM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote: > Hey all, I have a sony vaio that I'd love to install freebsd on. Only probelm > is I have no cdrom and only have a USB floppy. I'd bet that the internal > eepro100 nic would work if only I could get through the bootup from the > floppies. I tried the standard 4.2 boot floppies to no avail. Is there a > magical set of boot disks out there that will help me with this? My VAIO dual-boots Win98 and FreeBSD 4.1.1-R. What I did (because my PCMCIA NIC wouldn't work 'out-of-the-box') was follow the install-from-a-dos-partition directions in the handbook. I sucked down via FTP the 'bin' distribution. I had no problem with using the funky USB floppy drive, though; the VAIO was all to happy to boot off of it. Isn't there still a Win app to 'boot' into a FreeBSD install once Windows is running? <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/tools/fbsdboot.exe>; > -- > Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 http://www.sistina.com/ > Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 > Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) > Key fingerprint = A69A 118D 710B 8EB0 DC3B D912 2F19 311A 02DD 1908 > > Make the force be with you. And for god's sake men, be careful. > ** Lt.Col. Eaton 3rd Battalion 14th Infantry - Panama Jungle 1991 -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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