Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:20:05 +0100 (MET) From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Cc: raj@cisco.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an NEC Versa 6030X? Message-ID: <199703051320.OAA00197@CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <199703042151.NAA20494@rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com> from "raj@cisco.com" at "Mar 4, 97 01:51:19 pm"
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> > > I figured I'd get the latest FreeBSD CDROM and boot/install directly > > > from the internal CD drive onto disk. The system can handle two LiIon > > > batteries at once so that should help a lot with power consumption, and > > > I can always exchange the CDROM for another disk drive if I need more > > > space for compiling programs for installation. > > > > Can you mount the CDROM and floppies simultaneously? if you can't you > > can't install from CDROM, you'll have to use network or floppies. > > Nope. Can only have one of them at a time. I'm hoping I can install > a basic system from floppy and then install the rest from CDROM? Yes. But, if you have a minimal dos on your machine, you can boot it the normal way, use your cd, and from dos, you can boot FreeBSD. On the CD, there is an autoboot or autoexec or I don't know exactly the name .bat file, which use the dos fbsdboot.exe utility which can boot FreeBSD, from a working dos machine. So first, try this one, it's much more simple. The only trick is to boot dos without emm386 or such memory-manager, fbsdboot doesn't like it. (It's interesting, that the loadlin.exe utility can kick off emm386, and fbsdboot cannot.) Gabor
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