Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 00:44:02 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: wei@fokus.gmd.de (Lu Wei) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of freebsd Message-ID: <199509282344.AAA16216@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199509281517.IAA17012@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Lu Wei" at Sep 28, 95 04:15:24 pm
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> > > Hi, I will be grateful if somebody can ping me some ideas on how to solve the > following problem when installing the FreeBSD. > > > 1. I have split the existing "C:" into two partitions: sd0s1 and sd0s2. > sd0s1 contains the existing user data while sd0s2 is free and for > FreeBSD installation. Now, sd0s1 is "C:", sd0s2 is "D:". > > 2. I copied all the "bin.*" and "root.flp" into "C:\FreeBSD". > > 3. After boot-up(using RaWrite.exe and Boot.flp). > In "Partition" Menu, I select sd0s2 and set sd0s2 to "A", then quit. > > 4. In "Label" menu, I do nothing and quit. Why? You have to label the disk and define the mount points/newfs options. > > 5. In "Distribution" menu, I select "Minimal" and exit. > > 6. In "Media" menu, I select "DOS", and further select "sd0s1", then exit. > > 7. When I press "Extract" menu, it shows: > " Couldn't extract all of the distributions. This may be because the > specified distributions are not available from the installation media > you've chosen (residue: 1)." > > > Please check my steps. > > Thanks and best regards. > > Wei > GMD-FOKUS > GErmany > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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