Subject: Re: i386 1.5 install to networkless laptop?
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/08/2000 16:13:31
>> I have an old laptop I'd love to put NetBSD on, and it boots the install
>> floppies alright, but it has no PCMCIA or network on it. (I previously
>> used PLIP when it was running l*nux, but that drive has since died.)
>> are there install floppies available that have SLIP or PPP?
>I thought the standard install disk had slip, but I've never tried to
>use it.
is it possible for you to open up the chassis, put hard drive into
different machine, then install operating system? it should be
order of magnitude easier than to copy tar.gz via dozens of floppies...
itojun