Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:23:11 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Beck <toyz@lcc.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to download? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980415174851.21937C-100000@barnowl> In-Reply-To: <01BD6821.F66EADE0@lfkn-ddas1-a25.lcc.net>
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Common problem, OK, the first thing to do. Download everything you want. "What is that?", you ask? Well, as posted already, get fdimage.exe from the utilities and boot.flp from the floppy directories. With these, and at the dos prompt (don't run windoze) type fdimage boot.flp a: This will create a bootable floppy version of FreeBSD and the installer. Get the rest of the files you want, everything in bin, at the very least. Where to put these files. Unlike others, I had a very easy time doing the install from dos. But, you must have the distribution files in a particular directory structure. Like this: c:\freebsd\bin c:\freebsd\doc etc.... If you are installing on a machine where there will be dos on one partition, then you will need to run fips, another utility from the FreeBSD site. Run defrag first to make sure that the rest of the drive is clear. Then BACKUP EVERYTHING. Now run fips. It looks pretty arcane, but if you think about it, all you are doing is dividing up the disk into two halves so that dos no longer sees the second half. (Assuming it is by half you wish to divide the disk - just think of it as available resource. What is not dos is FreeBSD and so forth.) If you did it ok, the machine will act like its disk is half the size it was. Now stick the boot floppy in the slot and reboot. Follow the instructions for a minimal novice install from dos. (Assuming only the bin directory has been downloaded.) Say yes when asked if you want the boot manager. That will allow you to boot into dos or FreeBSD. When it comes to setting up filesystems, just let it auto select these. Until you feel comfortable setting your own up these will work with most min install configs where you have 200 MB or so as a minimum. >From here it ought to work just fine. Set up your root password and an alternative user. Do allow this alternate user (that's you) to have super user priveleges. As an alternative, you can do an ftp install. But you will need the port and irq of where you modem is. Mine on sio1 (com2) at 0x2f8 with irq 3. sio0 is com1. Now before anything else go and reread the documents at FreeBSD. Then backup and go for it! John On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Beck wrote: > How do I go about downloading FreeBsd? > I do not understand your online instructions. > I go to the ftp but never get anything downloaded. > HELP!!! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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