Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 21:43:50 -0500 (CDT) From: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu> To: dthorn@aa.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Support? Message-ID: <199610160243.VAA00494@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610160013.RAA22294@big.aa.net> References: <199610160013.RAA22294@big.aa.net>
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<dthorn@aa.net> writes: > I have been bouncing around this server for thirty minutes trying to > find information about a particular error message. What is the error message? > ... I tried searching the archives. However, my results are just > references to documents without telling me where to look for the > body of the messages. When you search archives, the results are presented in hyper-text form. Click on a reference, and the complete message body appears. > I wanted to install FreeBSD. I read everything in the handbook and > the install guide. However, there is an install option that is > overlooked. What install option? > I have tried installing from a dos partition, but the distributions > are not being copied. It tries and retries, but fails. This is on > hard drive 1 at less than 500 MB. The Handbook explains that the distribution directories need to be installed into a subdirectory called C:\FREEBSD. So, in DOS, you would have C:\FREEBSD\BIN, C:\FREEBSD\DOC, C:\FREEBSD\MANPAGES, ... See: http://www2.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook15.html#15 Oh, you are running DOS, right? Not Win95 or anything like that? > As mentioned above, I tried the ftp option, but it is not > recognizing the modem, I guess. When the boot prompt comes up, quickly type ``-c'' and then return. Then, configure the serial device that your modem is on. E.g., if you have an internal modem on COM3, configure serial device sio2. > By the way how do I get the boot manager off my drive now. It loaded > just fine. In DOS, the command is ``FDISK /MBR''. -- James
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