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Installing NetBSD on an actual I386 based Laptop
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Gregg C Levine
Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00
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Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
Yesterday, (Saturday 7/22/00), I saw an old I386 based laptop. A Grid by
name. It wore a plasma based display screen. I don't know what it wore in
the way of memory, but let us assume for the sake of arguement, that it was
16MB. How would I install the same version of NetBSD, which is 1.4 on this
old fellow, if he did not arrive with a CDROM reader?
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Gregg C Levine mailto:hansol...@worldnet.att.net
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"Trust in the Force, Luke, and wait." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"The Force will be with you. Always. " Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Yesterday, (Saturday 7/22/00), I saw an old I386 based laptop. A Grid by
name. It wore a plasma based display screen. I don't know what it wore in
the way of memory, but let us assume for the sake of arguement, that it was
16MB. How would I install the same version of NetBSD, which is 1.4 on this
old fellow, if he did not arrive with a CDROM reader?
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Gregg C Levine mailto:hansol...@worldnet.att.net
"Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Trust in the Force, Luke, and wait." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"The Force will be with you. Always. " Obi-Wan Kenobi
"May the Force be with you." "And to you" Anonymous
gabriel rosenkoetter
Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:18:23PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Yesterday, (Saturday 7/22/00), I saw an old I386 based laptop. A Grid by
> name. It wore a plasma based display screen. I don't know what it wore in
> the way of memory, but let us assume for the sake of arguement, that it was
> 16MB. How would I install the same version of NetBSD, which is 1.4 on this
> old fellow, if he did not arrive with a CDROM reader?
> Yesterday, (Saturday 7/22/00), I saw an old I386 based laptop. A Grid by
> name. It wore a plasma based display screen. I don't know what it wore in
> the way of memory, but let us assume for the sake of arguement, that it was
> 16MB. How would I install the same version of NetBSD, which is 1.4 on this
> old fellow, if he did not arrive with a CDROM reader?
How 'bout an ftp install (presuming the laptop has some kind of
network card)?
~ g r @ eclipsed.net
Jared D. McNeill
Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
> Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
> Yesterday, (Saturday 7/22/00), I saw an old I386 based laptop. A Grid by
> name. It wore a plasma based display screen. I don't know what it wore in
> the way of memory, but let us assume for the sake of arguement, that it was
> 16MB. How would I install the same version of NetBSD, which is 1.4 on this
> old fellow, if he did not arrive with a CDROM reader?
> name. It wore a plasma based display screen. I don't know what it wore in
> the way of memory, but let us assume for the sake of arguement, that it was
> 16MB. How would I install the same version of NetBSD, which is 1.4 on this
> old fellow, if he did not arrive with a CDROM reader?
I'm running 1.5B on my IBM ThinkPad 350 (486SL 25, 8M of RAM). I plugged a
PCMCIA ethernet card into it and did an FTP install. One could also do NFS
installs over the network. If you don't have a PCMCIA ethernet card, you
can still do (slower) network installs with a null modem. And of course,
you can install with floppy disks.
Hope this helps,
Jared
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