freebsd on laptop

Eric Crist mnslinky at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 14:59:15 UTC 2007


On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:39 AMJun 20, 2007, Eduardo Viruena Silva 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.
>

Buy a laptop that has at least a CD ROM or a Floppy drive...


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