Re: 8MB install

From: John Birrell <jb_at_cimlogic.com.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:12:17 +1000
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:15:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> There *are* other ways to install than booting a CDROM; they are
> just more labor intensive, and require FreeBSD running on a more
> poswerful machine to set up the install for the other machine.

True. Anyone who wants to install on a small machine should consider using
a network boot first. Build on a faster machine, then user etherboot on
the target machine to check it out. Sure it'll be slow, but all you have to
do once the machine is netbooted is fdisk, label the disk, newfs it and copy
over the stuff you need. Then reboot. If it doesn't work, netboot again and
have another go.

-- 
John Birrell
Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 21:12:33 UTC

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