On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > faisal gillani writes: > > fg> hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz At halon > fg> with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > fg> most of the time .. > fg> i also have some windows server on my network but > fg> thats a compulsory rather then choice . > > I'm gradually migrating legacy aps off my older NT server and I think it > might be extremely interesting to install FreeBSD on that machine once > it is free--if only I could persuade it to boot from diskette (for some > reason, the diskette drive no longer seems to be recognized by the OS). > It's an old HP Vectra, but like all vintage HP high-end machines, it > still works perfectly, after nearly a decade of continuous use. > > Can anyone tell me how to install FreeBSD on a machine that is running > Windows NT and refuses to boot from CD or from diskette? I don't > suppose there's any magic program I could run from NT that would start a > FreeBSD installation, is there?
I've used loadlin before to boot up a linux installer when I had neither a floppy driver nor a cdrom drive to boot from, it works quite well. For freebsd, I'm not sure if there is a similar program or not, but one possibility would be to use loadlin to start a basic linux environment, then use linux to install the freebsd bootloader to the hard drive and start the freebsd installer. > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
