RC1 --> option for floppy based network install?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Jun 28 05:51:50 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:04:10AM -0400, firefly wrote:
> My laptop (P2 233MHz) does not have a CD rom, currently runs OpenBSD. I 
> would like to install dfly.
> Anyway how to do a floppy based install via network?

Does your system support PXE? Another way might be to setup a FFS
partition from OpenBSD, extract the image and use the normal boot floppy
from FreeBSD. This means of course, that you use an A5 type and not the
normal OpenBSD slice.

Joerg

> 
> Thanks.





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