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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Alan Ogilvie wrote:

> I have a 486DX4 which I am considering to have as:
> 
> My main Hard Disc 1.2Gb mainly for Windows 95 (euch, but I have to).
> An Iomega JAZ drive (2Gb) with cartridge containing FreeBSD operating
> system (and such like).
> 
> I would make a floppy boot disk so that I can bootup in linux (is this
> possible?). But then will I be able to read from the JAZ drive, which is
> internal on IDE?

IDE?  Ugh.  I don't even know if it's supported.  You'd have to try the
boot floppy and see if it detects it.  If you have that and and the 1.2G
only, then concievably you should be able to boot it.  I'm not sure about
removable IDE volumes though.

> I'm also a bit unsure of the installation procedure. I've been looking
> at src.doc.ic.ac.uk computing/operating-systems/unix/FreeBSD/ but it all
> looks a bit confusing. Can you explain this a bit more generally - if I
> download a copy from here where do I 'put' it to install it?

See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major