Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Maude User wrote:
> Hello --
> 
> I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it
> onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below).
> 
> I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM
> drive (and keyboard and monitor) for the server in order to install FreeBSD...
> or is there some way I can install onto the rackmount server from the laptop?
> (There's no CD-ROM on the rackmount server, but the laptop has a CD-RW/DVD+-RW.)
> 
>

Start here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

You can do it in many ways. Good luck and welcome.