FreeBSD 5 Install Options

[Jim Mock]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:32  PM, Ben Jamer wrote:
> Hello! I haven't gotten the chance to use FreeBSD yet, do I figured I 
> would grab an old 486 and install it.  Now, I just have a few 
> questions before installation.  First of all, the computer doesn't 
> have a working Cd-Rom drive, so I am going to have to use floppies to 
> install it, but is it possible to put all the files I would need onto 
> the harddrive, and then install directly from it, rather than using 
> just floppies? It says a bit about this in the handbook and 
> install.txt/htm, but I just want to make sure I understand before 
> copying files over to the other computer for hours.

You're better off doing a net install, even if you're on a dialup.  A 
minimal net install (bin and manpages) will be much less of a giant 
pain in the ass than trying to install from floppies.

- jim

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