From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 21 16: 6:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls16.mediaone.net (chmls16.mediaone.net [24.147.1.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD08437B405 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercedes.local.domain (h000103d2e005.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.215.27]) by chmls16.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f9LN7YT12153; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:07:34 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chris Browning To: Tanguy Carrabin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dist on floppies ? Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:15:44 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01102119154403.12287@mercedes.local.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 18 October 2001 05:15, Tanguy Carrabin wrote: > Hi, > is there a ready-to-install distrib easily downloadable on floppies ? (for > my old 486 that doesn't have a CDrom nor an internet connection) > > Thanx, > > Tanguy > > Throw a 3Com 509 NIC in an ISA slot in that box and do the network install. 3C509's are dirt cheap and the driver works just fine. I've used quite a few 486s for mailservers, DNS servers and firewalls. BSD will also allow you to run a large (20GB or more) HD as a slave on the IDE controller. -- ---------------------------- Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com ---------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message