From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 11:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489FF37B657 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma021079; Tue, 17 Oct 00 13:15:06 -0500 Message-ID: <39EC970D.F77B1D0C@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:14:37 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom. References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------C7E52B2072217B412317AE44" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------C7E52B2072217B412317AE44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit this isn't a direct answer, but what i did recently for a 386 laptop, was to just take the harddrive, stick it in a pc with net and/or cdrom, install fbsd, then put back in the laptop. this however would require an adaptor to allow a standard ide cable to plug into the laptop drive. anyway.. a suggestion.. which worked well for me good luck! "Person, Roderick" wrote: > > > I have just been given two Digital HiNote Ultra II notebook PCs. > 150Mhz Pentiums. > > They don't have a CD-rom or modems. > > I would like to install 4.1 on them. I have FreeBSD 4.1 running on two > Desktop machines, I was wondering if there is anyway I can connect the > PC and the Notebooks via the serial ports to install from the CD on my > PC. Or am I stuck until I get an external CD-ROM. > > Roderick P. Person > Programmer II > Crystal Administrator > (412)454-2616 > personrp@ccbh.com > > "If it floats your boat, it must be water." > Roddie Rod - circa 1993 > --------------C7E52B2072217B412317AE44 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit this isn't a direct answer, but what i did recently for a 386 laptop, was to just take the harddrive, stick it in a pc with net and/or cdrom, install fbsd, then put back in the laptop.

this however would require an adaptor to allow a standard ide cable to plug into the laptop drive.

anyway.. a suggestion.. which worked well for me
good luck!

"Person, Roderick" wrote:

 

I have just been given two Digital HiNote Ultra II notebook PCs. 150Mhz Pentiums.

They don't have a CD-rom or modems.

I would like to install 4.1 on them. I have FreeBSD 4.1 running on two Desktop machines, I was wondering if there is anyway I can connect the PC and the Notebooks via the serial ports to install from the CD on my PC. Or am I stuck until I get an external CD-ROM.

Roderick P. Person
Programmer II
Crystal Administrator
(412)454-2616
personrp@ccbh.com

"If it floats your boat, it must be water."
                                        Roddie Rod - circa 1993
 

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