freebsd on laptop

DAve dave.list at pixelhammer.com
Wed Jun 20 15:39:11 UTC 2007


Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> no, i dont have floppy...

Search for FreeBSD diskless booting, the manual has info, there some how 
to sites as well. I've installed in Dell DataVaults this way. Works fine 
if your NIC card supports PXEBoot.

DAve

> 
> 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.
>>
>>
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