Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:50:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Rev. \"Thomas H. Smith\", DOA" <abner@bga.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728164850.226N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31ED847B.248B@bga.com>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Rev. "Thomas H. Smith", DOA wrote: > Hi! I've got a Toshiba laptop with a Backpack external CD-ROM > hooked to the printer port. I've already been told in no uncertaion > terms by many people that it (the CD-ROM) isn't supported by Linux. But, > here's the question...can I use rawrite or something to copy the parts of > either Linux or (preferrably) FreeBSD to a DOS partition and install it > from there? Certainly! Check out INSTALL.TXT for the complete instructions. Basically, you're going to make a \freebsd directory, then copy the dists over just like they are on the CD (ie, bin.aa-bin.cl in \freebsd\bin, etc...) > Or, could I be so lucky that maybe FreeBSD does support my > CD-ROM drive? Uh, no. > Oh, yeah, if it matters, my laptop has Win95 on it which I > have to keep. Will the two coexist? Surely, assuming you have unallocated disk space to install FreeBSD into. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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