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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!freepress.anasazi.com!chad From: chad@ds9.anasazi.com (Chad R. Larson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I MUST have a Floppy (yech) FreeBSD install --- anyone ever done one? Date: 18 Jul 1997 03:36:49 GMT Organization: Anasazi Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5qmoch$3o1@freepress.anasazi.com> References: <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ds9.anasazi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44602 In article <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu> writes: +--------------- | 4. HAS ANYONE EVER done a floppy install of FreeBSD????? Everyone does | the ftp or nfs or cdrom install that I have ever heard of. Has anyone | actually ever tested the floppy install? If so, I need to find out | the particulars therof. My install scripts on 2.1.5 worked fine, except | for the actual reading of the disk, and sure feels untested or broken | to me. My office FreeBSD boxes came up fine, so I don't think it is | my inexperience at the installs (done about a dozen installs now, yup | yup yup, and just love that FreeBSD install simplicity.....(:+}}.....). +--------------- Save yourself the grief. Take the machine to the office. Get a parallel LapLink cable and plug it into one of the machines you've got there. Run the lpt version of TCP/IP onto a machine that either has a CD-ROM or a good network connection and do the install that way. I used that method to get FreeBSD 2.1.5 onto a Compaq 386/LTE laptop. Worked fine. +--------------- | Thanks | Bob Keys/rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu +--------------- -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020