Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 14:09:18 -0600 From: duke normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdimaged the floppies--what next? Message-ID: <3735EB6C.B2B8E95A@3web.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990509101946.9185C-100000@dsinw.com>
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rick hamell wrote: > > I've got the kern and mfsroot floppies built. What do I do next? > > Put the kern.flp disk into the drive. Turn off the computer. Turn > it on and follow the instructions. Check out > www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html for precise instructions. > > Rick Thanks for the reply! I suppose that I did sound like a bloody moron--I did read the link and booted as you said. Looked at the hardware install routine and saw that my NEC-4300a cdrom changer was not supported (I guess) cuz it had CONF to the left of it. It is an IDE type. I had other CONF as well that may or may not be relevant. I didn't at that particular go-round save& exit. I thought that I should resolve these hardware conflicts first. What I should have asked was--once this hardware stuff is settled, I suppose that I will be asked what partition I want freeBSD installed on? Which leads me to my next question--I have a Compaq Deskpro XE 466 (it's a 486-66Mhz w/20M RAM) and a Quantum 1.xxxG HD. When I installed the HD, Quantum's Disk Manager had to be used to partition the HD, cuz I was told that my BIOS would only see 500Megs. I have 1 DOS partition. If I proceed with freeBSD, I would want a second, small DOS partition (which I wont compress) and of course a freeBSD partition. Do I HAVE to do this with Quantum's Disk Manager first, or do(can) I use FIPS to do it all? thanks...duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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