Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On 23 Jun 2007 11:57:28 GMT, "Joachim Schipper"
<jdNoOtSPAMschipper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, using some mechanism for booting an install disk (either one of the
CD images in the directory above, or a floppy) and doing a net install
works just fine. It does give you time to make lunch, though.

I see an iso image on the file mirrors, but it's only 4.9 megabytes. I
doubt that it would have support to get me online with the wireless
card. Looks like another catch-22 situation here. Without net access,
I can't do the net install. Without the net install, I don't have
network card support.

I do have a USB Ethernet adapter, but if I could get it to work with
an install disk, I wouldn't want to end up with having to use it or go
to all that trouble and find out after all that I still can't use my
wireless card and then have to wipe out the BSD partition to either
try something else or reallocate the space for Windows.

There are some other non-iso files but I wouldn't know what to do with
them once I opened the archives, and they also don't look big enough
to have the stuff to support my wireless network card to get me online
for a net install.

Can the net install be done from Windows to the blank partition
without messing up Windows? That might be a way to do it if it's
possible to do in the first place. Windows does recognize my wireless
card (though it wasn't as painless as with Ubuntu or SuSE, believe it
or not).
.

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