From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 15:16:19 EDT
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> I'd like to install FreeBSD on a 701C that does not have a
> floppy. The detailed instructions at the FreeBSD site assume
> the use of floppies. There is a hint of info about using other
> than floppies, but I'm not getting a consistent picture. For
> example, in one place it says put the /bin directory in the
> bootable C: partition, in another place it says something else.
>
> I do have a couple of things that *should* work better than
> floppies.
>
> First, I can put the 720 MB HD into my 600E ultrabay adaptor
> and copy anything I want to a DOS partition on that drive (I'm
> running Windows in the 600E).
>
> Second I have a 128 MB Compact Flash card with PCMCIA adaptor.
> It's bootable in the 600E, but not (I believe) in the 701C.
>
> The 701C (486/75) does not have a CD built-in. The PCMCIA CD I
> had is on permanent loan to my brother. The floppy drives are
> also on loan!
>
> I'm not wedded to FreeBSD, but it is supposedly more narrow in
> focus than Linux, and straightforward to install.
>
> Could anybody provide pointers?
>
> I'd like to get the OS installed and THEN learn more about how
> it works by using it. The last thing I want to do is get stuck
> in the middle of the installation of an OS that I know nothing
> about.
All you need to do is put everything in the /bin directory to a
temp directory on the HDD but you still will need the floppies to boot up.
The other option is to burn the ISO's to CD and to boot up from CD and do
the installs from that instead. I normally only download the floppies and
then just let the floppies ftp over the internet during installation.
What kind of CPU does the 701C have? I have the 770Z with the PII 366 and
512MB of ram and I'm thinking about running FreeBSD on it but I sure
wished there was more CPU power. I've been running FreeBSD since 1993
before 1.0-RELEASE has been out and it is more solid and better as a
server than Linux is. Linux is more of a unix-like clone while FreeBSD is
the BSD standard of Unix where TCP/IP networking in Unix all came from.
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