Installing DFly 1.0A on an old machine

Kaarthik Sivakumar kaarthik at comcast.net
Tue Jul 20 08:26:50 PDT 2004


>>> "MD" == Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
MD> :Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
MD> :>I would like to install DFly 1.0A on an old dual-Pentium II machine
MD> :>that is all SCSI and cant boot from CD-ROM, only floppies.
MD> :
MD>     My suggestion is to take the HD off the old box and temporarily connect
MD>     it to another box, install DFly on it, and then move it back to the
MD>     old box.

That would be a good way except that my other box is all IDE and no
SCSI.

I will try the boot floppy thing and if that doesnt work, then I will
try upgrading from FreeBSD 4.x.

Thanks.

kaarthik





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