From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 20:31:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02724 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02700 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02277; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:31:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: We are the knights who say Ni! cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation from DOS partition In-Reply-To: <199609230710.CAA22497@mds1.mastnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, We are the knights who say Ni! wrote: > I first tried to install the software from floppy disks by > downloading all the bin files via FTP, where I had made all the floppies > (15, including the boot floppy) and put the files on them in the right > order... and it didn't work. That's not unusual, unfortunately the floppy install instructions are less than accurate. > When I restarted my computer, I formatted the 600MB DOS partition with a > startup disk. To what type of partition? FreeBSD won't find it if you made it an extended partition. > Now, I can boot DOS, or uncomplete BSD from the HD. I have all the Bin > files on my DOS partition, in C:\FREEBSD\BIN, and that's all. I > selected the Minimal installation stuff, and made sure that BIN was the > only dist. set selected. When I try to install, the install program > tells me that the files for bin could not be found on the media type > selected. Did you select the proper disk and partition? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major