From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 11: 3:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3A015730 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.138.232] (helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10a1In-000NYK-0K; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:00:49 +0000 Received: by dookie.demon.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for kreis@hq.nasa.gov; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:56:41 +0100 (BST) Content-Length: 743 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990416094810.007c08a0@mail.hq.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:56:41 +0100 (BST) Organization: Jon's Place From: Jonathan Belson To: Kevin Subject: RE: Libretto Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Apr-99 Kevin wrote: > I own a Toshiba Libretto 100CT (great sub-subnotebook), I've gotten RH 5.2 > installed (a long drawn out process), but the PCMCIA floppy issue is > becoming annoying. > > Q: I understand that freeBSD has PCMCIA floppy support compiled into the > kernel. Does that mean that installation is as simple as booting from the > boot and root floppies and installing the OS via my PCMCIA CD-ROM drive? > > A: If the answer is YES then I'll be out buying a freeBSD distro tonight :o) I installed on my 50CT by pulling out te hard drive and putting it in another machine using a 2.5-3.5 adapter. Once I had a miniamal install up and running I upgraded it using ethernet. C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message