Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:19:28 -0800 (PST) From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> To: V-Vega <vvega@silly.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970405171144.12741C-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199704052100.QAA01405@silly.com>
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On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, V-Vega wrote: > Hi....I currently run Windows 95 as my sole OS. I wish to install BSD > 2.2.1. I didnt exactly understand the INSTALL.TXT %100. Firstly, I'm > planning on making a 350 meg partition on my HD for BSD. however, I have a > 400MB slave HD and i was wondering if BSD can boot from that rather than my > master hard drive. I also wanted to know about the floppy install. I do > not have the FreeBSD CDROM, so i was wondering after i d/l all the bin > filez onto the harddrive how do I go about ionstalling...do i need the > image disks ????? > > Thanks so much!!! As far as I know, and from what I've been told, you can install on a second hard drive. I plan to be doing it myself pretty soon. You need to download the boot.flp image, and use rawrite or fdimage.exe (found in the tools subdir) to put the image on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and follow the instructions from there. Theoretically, you can install the files from a DOS partition, in which case I think the files have to be in \freebsd. For instance, bin.?? are in \freebsd\bin, manpages.?? in \freebsd\manpages, ... Theoretically, that should work, but I've never been able to get it to work. The other option is to copy all the dist. files necessary onto floppies, about 6 to a floppy, and put them in the appropriate subdirs (a:\bin\bin.aa, a:\manpages\manpages.aa, ...) Say you were putting on the bin and manpages dist. On the first floppy, in the \bin dir, put bin.inf and bin.aa-ae or af, depending on how many fit (should be through af). On the last disk containing bin files, also make a \manpages dir, which contains at the very least manpages.inf, and as many of the manpages.?? files as possible. Then ,go on to more disks to get the rest of the manpages.?? files. If you were installing more dists, then you follow the same procedure, making the the last disk of one set contains the .inf file for the next set. I think I used about 25 disks for bin, doc, info, games, and manpages. Hope it helps!! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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