freebsd on laptop

Wed Jun 20 15:07:21 UTC 2007

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:35:16AM -0400, 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!!

If you buy a new enough one, it should have a USB port and most likely
be able to boot from that USB port.   So, buy a USB CDrom drive and
boot the install CD from that and then do the rest of the install
over the net - from a FreeBSD FTP mirror.

////jerry
> 
> TFC
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