From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 16: 3:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (unknown [209.198.197.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DEB15311 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01459; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:02:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:02:23 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Steve Howe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990525170223.B350@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>; from Steve Howe on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:16:15PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [format recovered---see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:16:15PM +0100, Steve Howe wrote: > Well, > > not that ambitious really... > > ...I'm trying to install FreeBSD2.2.8 on an HP Brio with a (non-supported) > Goldstar CDROM - CRD8322B. So the CD option doesn't work. > ok, forget about the CD. > I've made myself a boot floppy, following the normal instructions, which > seemed to work fine, but only did half the job, in that a boot manager was > successfully installed, and Windows 98 (spit) can't see the disk that I > allocated to freebsd. that's a start... > > But it never had the ability to download all those fine unixy things like > files because it had nowhere to download them from. > what kind of installation did you select? via ftp? nfs? do you have another machine running unix with a CDROM? > I got on to the web, and found some documentation telling me to copy > floppies\kern.flp, and floppies\mfsroot.flp from the CDs. Only problem was > that I can't find them on the CDs. And I can't see how this will enable me > to download the rest of the stuff that I will need from the CDs either. > What's the plan there? > It won't. The instructions there are meant to help people create a boot floppy which you have already done. If everything fails you can install from your MS-DOS partition. Go to http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x616.html and follow the directions under "Before Installing from a MS-DOS partition". Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message