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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2006 06:58:55 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Afrose Fathima <afrose.tamanna@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Installation
Message-ID:  <20060524045855.GA54938@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <b98fcfb70605232144m4eba2ab0rf78eaceba57db7b3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:14:58AM +0530, Afrose Fathima wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a DELL box.I have dowloaded the
> 6.1-Release ISO images from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/r...ISO-IMAGES/6.1/<ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/>;
> .
> Its gives us the ISO's for three CD's bootonly,disc1,disc2.But when we try
> to install starting with the bootonly disc it misses out on a few screens
> and also gives messages regarding unavailability of a few packages etc. Also
> it does not ask for the insertion of the other CDs at any point of the
> installation.

bootonly is a stripped-down version of disc1 and does not contain the set of
packages included on disc1.


For normal installation use disc1 and disc2, starting with disc1, and ignore
bootonly.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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