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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
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In article <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>
User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu> writes:
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| 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

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