From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 18:46:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06318 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zoom.bga.com (root@zoom.realtime.net [205.238.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA06311 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:46:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: from barnowl (apm1-92.realtime.net [205.238.146.92]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA21460; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:46:01 -0600 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:50:15 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Liz McQueeny cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!!!! In-Reply-To: <347628A2.B42612DD@pugetsound.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi There! You must make your directory structure under windoze look like, freebsd/bin (for the bin files oddly enough) then under the freebsd directory all of the other sub dirs that you want like dict, man, info, etc. sysinstall should then find it and install it like the dickins! John On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Liz McQueeny wrote: > I'm trying to install freebsd and I'm having a problem! > I want to do a single-disk, multi-os install. I have windows 95 > installed already. I downloaded the fips.exe and set up a new freebsd > partition, then I made my freebsd boot disk using the fdimage file. I > then downloaded the "bin" files from the ftp.cdrom site and stored them > in a directory named FreeBSD. The boot disk works fine but when i try to > install from a dos partition it kicks me back out to the select > distributions screen and I get into a vicious circle from there. > So, I decided to try to fdimage all of the "bin" files to floppy disk > and install that way, but when I got to the actual install screen where > it asks me to put in the first floppy, I get an error message that reads > "Error mounting floppy fd0 (/dev/fd0) on /dist : Invalid argument". > What does this mean??? > I'm new to UNIX-type OS's and I'm very lost!! I hope I've given you > enough information and I also hope you can help me. Thank you for > taking the time to read this. > > -- > Elizabeth McQueeny > ladybug@pugetsound.net > > > >