On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Guenther ha scritto: > > On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone. My situation is this: > >> i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without > >> cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot > >> from USB. > >> So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the > >> procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on > >> it. > >> > >> Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the > >> bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? > >> > > Can your BIOS boot from the network (PXE)? If you can set up a PXE > > server with "pxeboot" as the boot image then you can boot that way. > > > > Alternatively you can pull out the hard drive, plug it into a > > different computer or a USB-to-IDE converter, install there, and then > > put it back. > > > > -Nick > > > > > Thanks for the attention Nick, but 1) i can't boot from pxe ( damn Sharp > ) and 2) i wish an elegance solution without pull out the hard disk. Thanks
If your hardware doesn't have a CD-ROM drive you're already in the land of inelegance. Just deal with it. -Nick
