On Thursday 27 February 2003 05:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My CD ROM and Floppy drive are in the same spot. FTP , CABLE , HEADLESS
> will not Work. 4 sets of cables, 20 disks later nothing has changed, cept
> my grey hair.
>
> So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so far as I
> can see. No CD No CABLE No Nothing but floppies
I wouldn't rule out those other options so quick. How did those other methods
fail? My guess is you would be better of figuring out how to get a headless
or ftp to install to work. if you've got a serial port you can do a
headless install. you could also get a modem and install over that. I think
a null modem cable to do headless could even be cheaper than enough floppies
to do a floppy install.
If you're determined to do a floppy install, you could always install 4.7
from floppy and then use your 5.0 CD to install/upgrade to 5.0
Tim
>
> So I need to know is the /BASE in 5.0 the same as /BIN in 4.7 so I can
> start rolling out floppies.
>
> Once I have an install I am sure the cd and all the rest will be fine
> since it worked fine with RH.
>
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:16:16
> >
> > massey wrote:
> >> Is there a way to do a min install with floppies and then > use
> >> /stand/sysinstall to finish it off?
> >
> > I know this isn't _specifically_ what you're asking, but I thought I saw
> > a previous reply that was similar.
> >
> > When I have a machine that won't boot to cdrom, I download
> > boot floppy images for the latest release (in your case that
> > would be 5.0r), and the first iso image for that release.
> >
> > I would then boot from the kern.flp disk, and when prompted,
> > proceed to the mfsroot.flp disk.
> >
> > That gets me through the kernel config and into sysinstall.
> > Via sysinstall, I can chose the media from which the rest of
> > the install will be retrieved, ie ftp, cdrom, etc. I then
> > choose cdrom, making sure the cdrom is in the drive, and...
> >
> > I'm not an expert, but I don't know of another way to do a
> > minimum install "from floppies", unless you're looking for
> > picobsd or something. That does not, however, mean that
> > there is no other way to do it, I just don't know about it.
> > I truly hope that this helps. Good luck.
> >
> >
> > Joshua Lokken
> >
> >
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