freebsd7 on older machines

[Derek Ragona]

At 03:39 PM 5/9/2008, prad wrote:
>i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down).
>i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the
>installation cdrom.
>
>i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a
>faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install
>via nfs. or i can setup the hd on another machine that does support the
>install cdrom and then transfer to the older machine.
>
>here are the specific questions:
>
>1. do older machines work better with older versions of freebsd?
>2. if i dd a hd (with freebsd) onto another hd will i have a problem
>with the mbr and be unable to boot?
>3. are there any other ideas for install?
>
>--
>In friendship,
>prad

Your older computer probably doesn't support booting from CD.  You can  get 
a third party BIOS to upgrade your system.  Or create boot floppies to 
start the install.

Once you get a version installed keep it up to date using cvsup or the new 
binary update utility.

         -Derek

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