freebsd on laptop

[Joe Holden]

Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> no, i dont have floppy...
> 
> TFC
> 
> On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
If its fairly recently, it will probably support PXE, you could
boot+install via that?

Thanks,
Joe