Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:14:37 -0500 From: nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom. Message-ID: <39EC970D.F77B1D0C@telecom.ksu.edu> References: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59B02604067@1UPMC-MSX6>
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--------------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 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> 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. <p>this however would require an adaptor to allow a standard ide cable to plug into the laptop drive. <p>anyway.. a suggestion.. which worked well for me <br>good luck! <p>"Person, Roderick" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <p><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I have just been given two Digital HiNote Ultra II notebook PCs. 150Mhz Pentiums.</font></font> <p><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>They don't have a CD-rom or modems.</font></font> <p><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>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.</font></font> <p><b><i><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size=+1>Roderick P. Person</font></font></i></b> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Programmer II</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Crystal Administrator</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>(412)454-2616</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>personrp@ccbh.com</font></font> <p><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>"If it floats your boat, it must be water."</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1> Roddie Rod - circa 1993</font></font> <br> </blockquote> </html> --------------C7E52B2072217B412317AE44-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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