From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 10:18:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B594437B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA23868; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:22:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3A254879.1080406@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:18:33 +0100 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001127 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Lessard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dense Newbie References: <000d01c05709$de797d80$67988d18@Fuzzy.kico1.on.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Lessard wrote: > [snip] > > 1) Is there a place in your site that I may download the files I > would need for version 3.4 that I can do under windows, and transfer > to floppies ??? > Not that I know of. > 2) Is there a way to recoup the 525, so that I may partition a 125Meg > slice for dos, and do a DOS install of 4.0 that way ??? > See below. > 3) Is there something so simple that I missed that could make my life > easier ??? > 3) There is. Have 4.2-Release floppies have a grab at the hard disks, AFTER you have them partitioned with good ol' DOS. There is even a FreeDOS out there (which was DR DOS in an earlier instance. FreeBSD disk partitioning can take hints from DOS created partition tables ;) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message