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From: tedm@portsoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I MUST have a Floppy (yech) FreeBSD install --- anyone ever done one?
Date: 20 Jul 1997 08:25:59 GMT
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In <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>, User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu> writes:
>I would like to install FreeBSD on a lowendian home box (8 megs ram,
>200 megs IDE HD, mono (yup mono) monitor, unfortunately NO CDROM).
>
>
>2. I need to do a floppy install --- sorry no CDROM available, and I don't
> plan on one for now. I have tons of floppies and only one install will
> be required for a long time, right? (pending power line nukes...(:+{{....)
>
If you already have a machine available that you can network to it you can
install over NFS or FTP from an existing CD on it.
Otherwise if you have no CD, since you are going to be having to FTP the
images anyway, why not just cut the mucking about with floppies and do
a FTP install over the Internet with the boot floppy?