Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 01:05:54 -0400 From: Aaron Jeremias Luz <aaron@csh.rit.edu> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unique question...... Message-ID: <19980903010554.00863@homenet> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980901115700.wwoods@cybcon.com>; from William Woods on Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:57:00AM -0700 References: <XFMail.980901115700.wwoods@cybcon.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:57:00AM -0700, William Woods wrote: > I have a recently acquired laptop, no floppy drive or cdrom. I > would like to install FreeBSD on it, it does have a built in modem. > It currently has Win95 omn it. > > What I want to do is this, blow away win95 and install freebsd. > There is no way to make a boot floppy for it (it has no floppy > drive) so, I am at a loss how to do this.....any ideas appreciated. What you need to do is use fbsdboot.exe under DOS. Create a directory called "c:\freebsd" and place the files "fbsdboot.exe" and "kernel" in it. Execute the command "fbsdboot -D kernel", and you're off just as if you had used the boot floppy! These files can be found in the root directory of CDROM #1 included with The Complete FreeBSD. fbsdboot.exe is easy to find elsewhere, but the special kernel is typically found only compressed and stored within the boot floppy's Unix filesystem. If you want me to send you the file personally, send me e-mail off list. Of course, I would much rather point you to an official FTP site. Also, if anything goes wrong, it would be much easier to have both a floppy drive and the book available. Good luck, Aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980903010554.00863>