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Re: RC1 --> option for floppy based network install?


From: Emiel Kollof <emiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:15:47 +0200

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On Monday 28 June 2004 18:04, firefly wrote:
> M. Schatzl 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?
> >
> > Installing over the net seems a bit of an overkill to me if the machine
> > is in front of you. Why don't you use a bootloader-floppy, start the
> > DragonFly Life-CD and install from this one?
> >
> > SmartBootmanager: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net
> >
> > /markus
>
> Quoting myself:" ... does not have a CD ROM...", as in drive.

AFAICR, btmgr can also netboot, so you might be able to combine the mock-cd 
trick in combination with netbooting. 

Cheers,
Emiel
- -- 
Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human kind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
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