If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy
images.
Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable
zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso?
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If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy
images.
Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable
zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso?
problem is to create the zip disk
On Monday 02 March 2009 08:36:39 new_guy wrote:
We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system.
Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by
downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the
install. Our machines have no
the
install.
Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have a similar method to
installation?
Thanks!
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We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system.
Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by
downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install.
Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have
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than where it will be installed.
That is mostly because you build your disk filesystem as part of the
installation.
jerry
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new_guy wrote:
You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd).
Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine,
formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over
ftp.
If that's what you want I definitely misunderstood.
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:19:57PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote:
new_guy wrote:
You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd).
Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine,
formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating
done it from network
and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots.
jerry
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think some people have done it from network
and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots.
jerry
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