From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 12:18: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A7337B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hispeed.ch (isp247n.hispeed.ch [62.2.95.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABED43F1E for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:18:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from locus@hispeed.ch) Received: from rock.stable.ch (dclient217-162-34-199.hispeed.ch [217.162.34.199]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id h0DKHxmi031562 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:17:59 +0100 Received: from locus by rock.stable.ch with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18YB1y-00015l-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:17:58 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:17:58 +0100 From: Thomas Spreng To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSDOS Install Message-ID: <20030113201758.GB3863@rock.stable.ch> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1042483262.1658.40.camel@pan.ehsbrann.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1042483262.1658.40.camel@pan.ehsbrann.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:41:02PM +0000, Ian Watkinson wrote: > Trying to install 5.0 RC3 > > Because of the strange way that my sony vaio laptop sees it's CDROM, I > can't do a cdrom install, so was looking as the MSDOC partition install. > > However, the readme, and the handbook both refer to a "bin" directory > which doesn't exist on the CDROM,or the ftp site. ftp.uk.freebsd.org for > example. > > Anyone done this? Which direcotory to copy? sorry but i can't understand your question very well, but if you cannot boot from cd, just make the two installation floppy disks and boot from them. You can choose your cdrom as installation media even if you boot from a floopy disk. cheers, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message