Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 13:41:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: gentile@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Elizabeth J Gentile) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please help Message-ID: <199602101842.NAA07424@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <199602100330.WAA08624@gradin.cis.upenn.edu> from "Elizabeth J Gentile" at Feb 9, 96 10:30:39 pm
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Elizabeth J Gentile wrote... > > Hello, I have some questions I hope you can answer: > > I am installing FreeBSD 2.1 on my Toshiba 400CDT portable computer. I have a 415CS - nice box. > > My CDRom drive is not supported, so I need to copy the necessary > directories to my hard drive. Bummer. I suspected it might not be, which is why I didn't buy one. > > 1. Which dirs are required for the X-Developer distribution? Well, you'll need everything in 'bin' and 'manpages' are pretty essential. The 'src' directory conatins all the source code and XF86312 the X-Windows stuff. The X distribution is very large, I think you'll need the following: X312SVGA.tgz, X312bin.tgz, X312ctrb.tgz, X312fnts.tgz, X312lib.tgz as a minimum. As before, include the man pages (X312man.tgz) if you have room. The SVGA server works fine with the C&T video card in your Toshiba. > > 2. And if I copy the entire CD-Rom to my hard disk, will it only install the > options for the X-Developer distribution, or will the install program > expand ALL of the files it finds on the hard disk I am installing from > (like a FULL installation) ? No, it picks out the stuff you need. Trouble is, I don't think you'll have the space. What disk have you got? Bearing in mind that you'll have the distributions in one partition and the system in another, the disk demands of a full install get very heavy. In my case the 770ish Mb disk is split about 50-50 for Win95 and FreeBSD. This douldn't allow me to copy the whole CD-ROM onto my FAT partition, and also didn't leave enough space for an 'everything' install of FreeBSD. > > 3. Are PCMCIA modems supported, or only serial ones? Only serial at present. PCMCIA stuff is in alpha. I haven't looked at it yet. > > 4. How do I install additional pieces later without re-installing the > whole system? I normally use one of the pre-defined install options first and then use the following procedure to make additions. Use the 'custom' option from the install menu and do the following: go into 'disklabel' and tell it where to mount the slices select the parts of the distribution I am adding (but not stuff I've already installed, don't select 'bin' again, for instance) commit. The only thing that gets re-done is the /dev directory. No harm in that. On my notebook I installed the 'kernel developer' distribution first and added X in the subsequent pass. > > Thanks, > Elizabeth > You're welcome. If I can be any more help, feel free to ask. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s
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