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From: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com>
To: 'Rob B' <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>,
	Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
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Subject: RE: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:23:42 -0500
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Regarding the boot disks, there is also a GUI utility for Windows at
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm (watch the wrap) that is
very nice.

===========
Michael Oliver 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob B [mailto:rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:07 PM
> To: Anthony Atkielski
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
> 
> 
> At 09:59 30/10/2001, Anthony Atkielski sent this up the stick:
> >No easy way to create boot floppies with Windows NT.  And 
> since I'd be 
> >installing on a completely blank machine, I'm not sure how 
> I'd be able 
> >to FTP anywhere to get the rest.
> 
> There is an app in the /tools directory on one of the CD's 
> called fdimage 
> that works fine, I made my boot disks under NT with it.
> 
> As for the FTP install, once you get the kernel and mfs 
> floppies loaded, 
> you simply supply an ethernet connection, specify a default 
> gateway and 
> select an FTP server near you ... once again, this is how I 
> installed my 
> machine ... but this is pretty much redundant since you 
> bought the CDs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care 
> of themselves.
> 
> [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian
> This is random quote 903 of a collection of 1175
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