Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:10:21 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/floppies/ Message-ID: <201108081010.p78AAL9k011194@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:24:15 PDT." <4e3f72ff.ULPqV8KTN/ScPv1i%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > > > With no USB boot, No CD (except maybe pcmcia cdrom & that > > too would need a floppy to start it, Even PL-IP would need > > a floppy to start with. > .. > > Sure I have other better machines, but this spare old laptop > > makes a nice spare X screen ... > > Provided the machine has USB, This laptop does not, but I noticed it has a SCSI on the expansion port, I'd better try that. > this http://www.plop.at/ will > boot the memstick (at least, it works for me with 8.1). Thanks, There's a lot of various software there, I guess you mean http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#features I'll come back to that after trying to build some boot native FreeBSD boot floppies. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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