Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

From: Mike Jeays (Mike.Jeays_at_rogers.com)
Date: 01/19/05

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:08:14 -0500

    On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:10, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
    > faisal gillani writes:
    >
    > fg> hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz At halon
    > fg> with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle
    > fg> most of the time ..
    > fg> i also have some windows server on my network but
    > fg> thats a compulsory rather then choice .
    >
    > I'm gradually migrating legacy aps off my older NT server and I think it
    > might be extremely interesting to install FreeBSD on that machine once
    > it is free--if only I could persuade it to boot from diskette (for some
    > reason, the diskette drive no longer seems to be recognized by the OS).
    > It's an old HP Vectra, but like all vintage HP high-end machines, it
    > still works perfectly, after nearly a decade of continuous use.
    >
    > Can anyone tell me how to install FreeBSD on a machine that is running
    > Windows NT and refuses to boot from CD or from diskette? I don't
    > suppose there's any magic program I could run from NT that would start a
    > FreeBSD installation, is there?

    I presume you have tried changing the boot order in the BIOS settings?
    You should be able to make the CD or floppy drive come ahead of the hard
    disk in the boot sequence.

    My apologies if this is too trivial an answer!

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