On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 08:37:08PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:25:24 -0800 
>  collver@mad.scientist.com wrote:
> 
>  > >    * Installation from floppy, CD, disk, tape, NFS, FTP, ...
>  > 
>  > The FreeBSD install used to only require one floppy, the rest could be done
>  > over a dial-up connection.  Now FreeBSD requires two floppies, but it will
>  > still work over a dial-up or plain serial connection.
> 
> Does it still require just one floppy?  Or does it require the CD-ROM now?

I was unclear.

The NetBSD i386 install floppy includes neither a dialer nor pppd.

If I remember right, the i386 NetBSD kernel which comes on the install
floppy doesn't have serial support built in.

I installed on a lap top sans NIC and CD-ROM.  With FreeBSD I used the
single boot floppy and did the rest of the install through a serial port.
With NetBSD I had to write quite a few floppies and sit in front of the
machine swapping floppies.

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