Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 02:29:12 +1000 From: Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@Turnaround.com.au> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-xircom@lovett.com Subject: Re: Xircom 10/100 + 56kbps PCMCIA cards Message-ID: <37024D58.3CAE0A53@Turnaround.com.au> References: <36FE1701.DB33F3BB@Turnaround.com.au> <14078.56280.527915.856138@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> <370230BF.335404A1@Turnaround.com.au> <14081.35947.522124.605704@deneb.meridian-enviro.com>
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"Douglas K. Rand" wrote: > > I added the FreeBSD-Xircom list to the CC Cheers, I thought thats where I sent it :) > Joe> Actually, one thing I'm trying to do (and haven't had that much > Joe> experience with) is booting off the 3.1-RELEASE boot floppies to > Joe> install 3.1-STABLE onto my laptop [via the Xircom driver]. > > Joe> Any ideas on the best way to do this? > > Well, visit http://www.cdrom.com and buy the CD. :) The beasts as cdrom.com have sent my 2.2.8 and 3.1 CD's into limbo somewhere :( I've since cancelled my subscription but will renew it now I've finished moving house for the 5000th time. Geez I hate moving... > Not the answer you were probably hoping for, but what you propose > sounds difficult. You'll need pccardd running, a working > /etc/pccard.conf, and the xe driver to work. Probably dificult to do > on a boot floppy. > If you can't install via CD, I'd do the instalation via PPP or a > parallel port IP connection. If you are installing onto a slice of > your disk, and the other slice has Windoss and a couple of hundred MB > free, download the distribution to c:\release and install from there. This sounds highly sneaky :) I've got a spare 5 gig or so on the Windoze partition so I should be OK. Now, what is the exact format for that c:\release directory? Or do I pull down everything under, say, 3.1-STABLE, into this directory exactly as it appears on the FTP server? Cheers, Joe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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