How to install FreeBSD on 2nd removable UltraBay Drive of a Dell600 NoteBook

[Gilbert Laprise]

That might work, but with the use of floppies going rapidly obsolete I 
would prefer not to buy an extra floppy drive.

I could use a 128MB SD card in a USB drive. However I am not sure it 
would be possible to format it as a bootable device and boot from it.  I 
am not sure either that just copying the content of the kernel, root and 
driver floppy onto it would do the job.

Gilbert

arden wrote:

> how about getting a usb floppy drive ?
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> Arden 
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> On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 20:07, Gilbert Laprise wrote:
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>>I have Windows/XP install on my Dell 600 Notebook. Since with that 
>>Notebook I have the option of booting from a removable Ultrabay disk 
>>drive, I would like to install FreeBSD on the second drive.
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>>The problem is that in order to initiate the installation whether I do 
>>it using FTP, HTTP or NFS, I have to remove the 2nd drive to replace it 
>>with a CD/DVD or Floppy drive to boot and start the install process.  It 
>>is during this initial phase that my notebook hardware is detected. 
>>Naturally at that time the 2nd drive is not in the ultrabay, so it is 
>>not detected, but either the floppy or CD/DVD drive is. Once the 
>>sysinstall program is running when I replace my boot device by the 2nd 
>>disk, I don't see the second drive when I try to define the partition.
>>
>>I have a local net with a desktop already running FreeBSD and a FreeBSG 
>>5.1 bootable install CD.  Any suggestion how to proceed to install 
>>FreeBSD on the 2nd UltraBay drive of my Dell 600 Notebook.
>>
>>Gilbert Laprise
>>
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