From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 14:41:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.converging.net (edtn002029.hs.telusplanet.net [161.184.135.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8438514DEF for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dtougas@converging.net) Received: from converging.net (brutus.converging.net [161.184.135.251]) by brutus.converging.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA07051; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:58:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dtougas@converging.net) From: Damien Tougas Message-Id: <199908242158.PAA07051@brutus.converging.net> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:58:17 z (MDT) To: garciacj@gate.net Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help installing from a DOS partition X-Mailer: AtDot 2.0.1 X-URL: http://www.converging.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I already patitioned the hard drive. > I have decided to install FreeBSD from the partition > with Microsoft Windows 98 already on it. I have installed off of a DOS partition, and one of the things that I discovered is that the CD directories and files need to be at the root of the partition in order for the installation to work. You cannot put them in a sub-directory, there is no option to install from a sub-directory on a DOS partition that I have seen. This might make a bit of a mess if you already have Windows installed on the partition. > My question is what files should I copy from the CD onto my > hard drive to get FreeBSD on my machine so > I can use FreeBSD with X and most of programs > a clueless newbie like myself would need to learn? When I did it, I just put all of Disk1 on the DOS partition, and that pretty much made it easy to install most anything I wanted. Damien Tougas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message