STeve Andre' wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 22:15, John Kintaro Tate wrote:
>
>> I was wondering about installing OpenBSD on a very old laptop (no cdrom)
>> via serial line. I am aware it would take literally ages.
>>
>> I am guessing slip would be the way to go, I have never used it before.
>> Does anyone have anything they can point me at with a reasonable
>> introduction, such as certain manpages etc.
>>
>> John
>>
> I've never thought about a serial feeding. You're right, it would
> take forever. My suggestion would be to take the disk out of the
> laptop and stuff it into a more modern unit and do the install
> that way, or, get an adaptor and put the disk into an i386 box
> and do an install that way. Either way is apt to be faster than
> using a serial line (gack).
>
How about a USB PCMCIA card plus USB CD-ROM? Probably need the 'c'
floppy instead of the 'a', but it might work.
