From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 9:45:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0A337B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D2143E09 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g68GjfLk081118; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:45:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:45:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: harsha godavari Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Floppy installation Message-ID: <20020708164541.GC99653@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3D28EACA.F93B4AED@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D28EACA.F93B4AED@shaw.ca> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 07), harsha godavari said: > I would like to install FreeBSD on some 386/486 machines we have > around and pass them on to some seniors.They are mostly interested in > Emailing grand-children, a little bit of surfing and the odd > Solitaire :-) > > My problem is(apart from my being a DOS person), these computers do > not have CDRom drives and cannot boot from CDR drives. So whatever > software is required, needs to loaded from floppies. > > Is there a complete guide to floppy-installation and what files do I > download (from where :-) ) Thanks for your help. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html The boot floppy images are available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6-RELEASE , in the floppies directory. If you have ethernet cards, it'll probably be easier to boot from floppy but do a network install. Otherwise you'll have to follow the instructions in the handbook section 2.13 (Preparing Your Own Installation Media), for copying the install files to floppy. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message