From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 0: 0:18 2002 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 E4AA737B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from outlander.us (35-3-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.3.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302B643EDA for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:00:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@outlander.us) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Alternate boot X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:00:15 -0900 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Alternate boot Thread-Index: AcKrIeQJS+BwhLqwT2u0nCfSwoyr+AAACyUg From: "Mark-Nathaniel Weisman" To: "Rafael Sierra" , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you have another machine that you could format the drive with? The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is to use the FTP option, however, I'm not sure how you could establish an FTP connection without any of the media? Good Luck. His Faithful Servant, Mark =20 -----Original Message----- From: Rafael Sierra [mailto:s030037@sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp]=20 Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:53 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Alternate boot Hello everyone. I am trying to install FreeBSD on a (non-standard) machine that can't boot from cds and also lacks floppy drive. The machine can boot dos. The question: Is there anyway to make a Hard disk bootable in order to start the FreeBSD installation program? Thanks in advance Rafael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message