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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:19:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install on system without floppy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002141710.25780F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <081_9709281058@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>

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On 28 Sep 1997, Leif Neland wrote:

> I have FreeBSD and dos on one machine, with the bin distribution on a
> dos-partition. I guess I can mount_msdos and make it available for ftp? 

Why not copy the files to the FreeBSD slice?  :-)

They should land under /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/  (or whatever your
release is).

> Now I want to install FreeBSD on another dos-machine on the network.
> This machine doesn't have a floppy. Can I boot the install-floppy from dos?

This is easier done with the CD-ROM as it has the necessary files on it,
but it can be done using the fbsdboot program.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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