Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:10:25 -0500 From: "Charlie Schloemer" <charlie@infoworks.net> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Subject: Re: Installing on to a laptop with no CD-Rom. Message-ID: <200010172005.PAA15328@smtp.intop.net> In-Reply-To: <ABC15E2D8FBCD311B4A200805FA7D59B02604067@1UPMC-MSX6>
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On 17 Oct 00, at 14:10, 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. Why not use SLIP or PLIP installation? All you need is a null serial/parallel cable. During the install, when it asks you to select your media type, select FTP, and have your other machine provide the distfiles via anonymous FTP... one of your desktop PC's with a CDROM that runs FreeBSD. You'll not only need to enable anonymous FTP from the desktop machine, you'll also need to use 'slattach' to get IP functioning over your null serial line. (You only need to run this manually from the Desktop side; sysinstall will handle this on your laptop.) Your Desktop should use (if possible) the same slattach options that sysinstall will be using on your laptop. When sysinstall asks you to configure the sl0 interface, in the 'extra options for ifconfig' blank, you need to key in the IP address of your slip peer, since it's a point-to-point connection. This is a Cool way to breathe life into Olde Ecuipmente. Good luck, -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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