From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 19:48:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gulftel.com (mail.gulftel.com [208.222.57.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB25214C3F for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjob@gulftel.com) Received: from gulftel.com ([208.222.60.90]) by mail.gulftel.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58681U15000L999S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:51:32 -0600 Message-ID: <36FC54E2.9FFCBF71@gulftel.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:47:46 -0600 From: bob olbrich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: charon@freethought.org, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation for 3.1-RELEASE (re-post) References: <3.0.5.32.19990325163327.00a4ccd0@mail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG charon@freethought.org wrote: > At 05:04 PM 3/25/99 -0600, bob olbrich wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I've downloaded a minimal installation and I'd like to know > >what to do next (I'm new to UNIX, and the book I have does not > >discuss this thoroughly). > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html is helpful. You basically > need to make the boot floppies (it sounds like you haven't done this yet). > You can download the floppy images mfsroot.flp and kern.flp at > ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/floppies/. The installation > section of the Handbook (see above) explains what to do with these, and > what to do next. > > -charon > Yes, I made the installation floppies, connected by FTP, and chose the quick and minimal installation. I saw the /bin distribution downloaded. Everything worked fine. Using F2 at boot did nothing. That's why I thought the installation was not complete I thought some mount operation might be necessary. Bob Olbrich rjob@gulftel.com > > 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