From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 22:11:49 2004 Return-Path: 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 731EC16A4D1 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:11:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73DE43D1D for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:11:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EAB1D8565F; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:41:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:41:09 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Dan Thomas Message-ID: <20041227221109.GO19771@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com> <0I9E0053OIJHUP@a34-mta02.direcway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/TUrtqMIkCP4YtJm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0I9E0053OIJHUP@a34-mta02.direcway.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Resent-From: grog@lemis.com Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:41:45 +1030 Resent-To: FreeBSD Questions Resent-Message-Id: <20041227221145.EAB1D8565F@blackwater.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Minimal system installation (was: What version) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:11:49 -0000 --/TUrtqMIkCP4YtJm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 16:01:57 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: > On Monday, December 27, 2004 3:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: >>> A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It >>> only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend >>> and would you send me the link to download it. >> >> It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine like that (in fact, I intend >> to start doing so on a very similar machine today), but only as a >> diskless workstation. FreeBSD needs a disk *somewhere*. If this is >> all you have, you can't run FreeBSD on it. > > I have a 750 mb hardrive on it. =20 Ah. You said you only had a floppy. > Is this big enough? Yes, you can do something useful with that. > I can put another drive if necessary. I think I have a 4 gb on the > shelf. You can certainly fill that too :-) So your question is how to install the software? Your best bet would be to put the disk in a machine with a CD-ROM and install it there. You can then move the disk back to the target machine. Make sure that the disk is connected the same way in both machines (preferably primary master). If you can't do that, and you can't install a CD-ROM drive temporarily, you'll have to follow the instructions in the handbook for floppy installations. It's certainly faster to move disks or CD-ROM drives. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --/TUrtqMIkCP4YtJm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB0Ih9IubykFB6QiMRAh5MAJ4zV9Sv98WTAmHydKKpYA30nFV/pgCdHUk7 QD/fnXPBXTTbeT7ngKXFtIk= =YehP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/TUrtqMIkCP4YtJm--