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