Re: FreeBSD 5.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-N505X

В Mon, 27.01.2003, в 16:38, Jens Rehsack написал:
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone has expirience how I could get a FreeBSD 5.0 installed on a 
> Sony Vaio PCG-N505X? This machine has it's cdrom attached through a 
> pccard. My problem is, that the floppy drive has a physical defect which 
> causes in disk salad everytime I access a floppy with it, so I must boot 
> from cdrom.
> 
> Can I plug off the cdrom after boot and attach an ethernet card? Or do I 
> have to create an own bootable cd, and what did I have to build into the 
> kernel?

You have options:
- get native SONY PCMCI cd-drive and boot and install from it
- install windows VMWare and then install FreeBSD from VMWare to free
partition, then boot from it (may be you should install one of boot
managers)

> So long,
> Jens

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