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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Laptop install woes Date: 2 Mar 1997 23:14:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5fd1jq$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn5hhj91.c1t.myke@phluffy.cyberport.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36412 myke@phluffy.cyberport.net (Mike Holling) wrote: > I'm trying to install 2.2-GAMMA on a laptop w/o a floppy drive. Curious: have you ever considered fbsdboot.exe? > I then tried installing the base FreeBSD system over the DOS slice. I tried to > use PLIP but it seems the installer doesn't pass lp the right arguments (it's > a point-to-point interface and needs two IP addresses), anyone get this to > work? You need to add the additional arguments in the bottom line of the IP setup screen (``extra arguments to ifconfig''). This is documented...: <quote> The ``Extra options to ifconfig'' is kind of special (read: a hack :-). You can use it for specifying the foreign side of a PLIP or SLIP line (simply type the foreign address in) as well as... </quote> > Is there any way to access the file system in the second partition (the > contents of the boot floppy)? The man page for 'boot' says that if there are > two FreeBSD slices on a disk you can only boot from the first one, this seems > like a strange limitation. It's not too strange if you know that all the code has to fit into 7.5 KB. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)