Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip@CS.McGill.CA> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1.0-R Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429134649.19662F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604291536.LAA21766@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: > But I solved my problem. I went into the holographic shell using Alt-F4, > I mounted the slave disk's 2.0.5 filesystem on /mnt and the master disk's > DOS partition on /dos. Then I copied the bin dist from the 2.0.5 fs to > the DOS partition (in C:\FREEBSD\BIN). After that, I selected "DOS partition" > in the Media menu and the rest went relatively well. Ah. The install wasn't meant to go through another UFS, although I faintly remember an option to install FROM an UFS. Oh well. > I thought that when I cleared the set of distributions to install, > it would avoid extracting the bin dist. I also thought that the > GENERIC kernel to be put on the hard disk was some sort of modified > copy of the boot floppy's kernel. > > I guess I thought too much. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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