freebsd on laptop

Eduardo Viruena Silva mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx
Wed Jun 20 14:47:23 UTC 2007


On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:

> hi folks,
>  I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is,
> some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000
> installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about
> installing on a desktop by booting from floppies. THank you!!
>

You can boot from floppies, configure your network card and install the 
system using FTP.

I had used a diskless system to install FreeBSD in computers that
do not even have floppies!

There is a lot of possibilities.

            Eduardo.



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