No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, I use to install FreeBSD with the floppies, then choosing the ftp-install. It was quite a while ago I had done so -- but now I see the x.flp images are gone. Or maybe I just havent found them on the ftp-site?? I cannot boot this computer from the SCSI-CD drives. Is there any

No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Huff
herbert langhans writes: I cannot boot this computer from the SCSI-CD drives. Is there any chance to get 8.0 for floppies? I do not believe there are (by default) floppies for 8.0; whether this is new for this release of not I cannot say. Is the machine modern enough it

Re: No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread herbert langhans
Yes, just checked it. There is a 'boot from usb-cdrom' option in the setup. I guess I have to sacrifice a usb-stick for the installation. Will it work this way? This is not yet updated in the the handbook -- but the 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img seems to be a file I have to dump on the

Re: No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread Aiza
herbert langhans writes: I cannot boot this computer from the SCSI-CD drives. Is there any chance to get 8.0 for floppies? I do not believe there are (by default) floppies for 8.0; whether this is new for this release of not I cannot say. Is the machine modern enough it could

Re: Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-07 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 09:53, Virgil wrote: I would like to know if their is any way I can find any images of what the desktop looks like in BSD, I have searched extensively for days and tried numerous ways to contact others and can't find absolutely no information about BSD, I would like to

Re: Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-07 Thread James Leone
Kent Stewart wrote: Since most of the desktops on Linux are also available on FreeBSD, you can see what they look like. I can also confirm that KDE 3.1 installs very nicely in FreeBSD 5.1-Current. The trick is setting up your xconfiguration, setting up kdm so you will have a graphical login

Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-06 Thread Virgil
I would like to know if their is any way I can find any images of what the desktop looks like in BSD, I have searched extensively for days and tried numerous ways to contact others and can't find absolutely no information about BSD, I would like to know what it looks like before I try to

Re: Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: Virgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: Images of FreeBSD I would like to know if their is any way I can find any images of what the desktop looks like in BSD, I have searched extensively for days and tried numerous ways to contact

Re: Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-06 Thread Chris
On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:15 pm, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: From: Virgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: Images of FreeBSD I would like to know if their is any way I can find any images of what the desktop looks like

Re: Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 06 September 2003 07:20 pm, Chris wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:15 pm, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: From: Virgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: Images of FreeBSD I would like to know

Re: Images of FreeBSD

2003-09-06 Thread Rod Person
On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:15 pm, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: From: Virgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: Images of FreeBSD I would like to know if their is any way I can find any images of what the desktop