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Date:      Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:07:23 -0600
From:      "Jack Juil Harris, Jr." <me@jharris.com>
To:        "Andrey Mavrichev" <mavrichev@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Installation - CD
Message-ID:  <NDBBKLDJKLFFBFKELEAKMELKCHAA.me@jharris.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A301550.435D1618@yahoo.com>

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Your Link suggests you are using an ALPHA platform.

If you are not then I would suggest that be the problem.

You should be fine with a CD-writer.
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrey
Mavrichev
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:55 PM
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Installation - CD


Hi,

I am trying to install a FreeBSD to my computer, but I do not have a
standard FreeBSD CD. However I have a CD-writer, so I downloaded all the
necessary distribution files from your FTP site
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.0/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.2-RELEASE/) and then
copied them on the CD. I booted from floppies, and in the "options" menu
specified the installation from the CD-ROM. All went fine while it
installed the distribution files, but then it displayed the message that
it can't install kernel.

My computer does not support booting from a CD-ROM, so in any case I
will have to boot from floppies. Can you tell me what configuration the
standard CD uses, and how that might be different from the one I used on
my CD (I had all distributions placed in the proper directory on the CD,
ex. D:\BIN\bin.aa, D:\BIN\bin.ab, etc...). I had the following
distributions on my CD in this manner: \bin, \dict, \doc, \manpages,
\ports, \proflibs, \src, \XF86336.

Please inform me of a way to create a valid CD for installation using a
CD-writer,

thank you for your help,

Andrey Mavrichev.

mavrichev@yahoo.com


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