From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 16:25:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA12552 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from emout07.mail.aol.com (emout07.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12533 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:25:36 -0800 (PST) From: SirensSong@aol.com Received: by emout07.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA18476 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:24:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 19:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: <960208192458_139449412@emout07.mail.aol.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation problem... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk hi, i'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 on a computer of mine... i'm having some trouble... here's the details... i spent a while downloading all the files in the bin directory and the two boot files i would need... i'm going to be installing this from 3.5 diskettes because i'm not installing it on the computer i DLed the files to... according to what i gather to do this i should use rawrite.exe to make a file image of root.flp on a disk and i should boot to that disk... i've tried to do this an essentially nothing happens... where the compter would normally say "starting MS-DOS" it just doesn't do anything... in case its a trouble with the computer here's the stats on that... its a 286 with DOS 6.0 currently loaded on it... it has a small (20 megs) HD, and only 1 meg of RAM... i'm planning on not having a DOS sector and only installing the minimum needed files of FreeBSD... if you could help me figure out why this isn't working i'd really be gratful.. thanx...