From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 13:27:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18043 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18030 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (roman.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA11251; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35EC59FE.4292B91A@graphnet.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 16:33:02 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Graphnet, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Friedrich CC: "wwoods@cybcon.com" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Unique question...... References: <199809011951.PAA10517@laker.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Friedrich wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 11:57:00 -0700 (PDT), William Woods wrote: > > >What I want to do is this, blow away win95 and install freebsd. There is no way > >to make a boot floppy for it (it has no floppy drive) so, I am at a loss how to > >do this.....any ideas appreciated. > > Here's a couple options: > 1. Find another machine (at work? a friend?) that has DOS/Winblows or > some variant of unix on it, that also has Internet access. Connect to > www.freebsd.org and read the docs to make a boot floppy. Note that the > procedure will vary according to the system you found as a surrogate. > 2. Find another machine (at work? a friend?) that has a CDROM drive, > acquire the CDROM distribution (and preferably the book The Complete > FreeBSD from Walnut Creek (www.cdrom.com). what i would do, if buying a cdrom drive and/or a floppy drive is out of the question is just put the hard drive in another machine, install a fully functional system on there, put it back in the laptop, boot up and reconfigure the kernel (not that i know how to reconfigure a kernel ;) good luck, roman -- Roman Katsnelson <-- Unix/NT Sys.Admin. Graphnet, Inc. <-- HQ at Teaneck http://www.wait.org <-- and in the mean time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message