Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:46:03 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" <ccrider@whiterose.net> To: "'JSMolinaro'" <JSMolinaro@hotmail.com>, "'FreeBSD'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: MS Win / BSD Message-ID: <002201c079dd$edc3f670$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> In-Reply-To: <OE10tvt4I9pTl4EnAv10000107f@hotmail.com>
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> I'm trying to get FreeBSD installed on my pc and I'm having > trouble. I've > got a dual boot with MS Windows 2000 Professional and Windows > ME. I also > got a partitioned disk, two hard drives with 2000 > professional on one and > Win ME onl the other. > I am running 4.2-RELEASE on my laptop with win2k, not sure how everything works with ME though. > I've got the cd and I've tried booting from it, my pc bios > supports that but > I cannot get anywhere when I boot up in DOS and try to run > INSTALL from the > cd, only VIEW works but then I am at a loss of what to do b/c > most of the > files are .TXT with a few exceptions that don't seem to get > any installation > process started. > Not sure what is happening here, you can't get anywhere with the installation or the CD doesn't do anything when you try to boot it? > In addition, I have zipped the two files MFSROOT.FLP & > KERN.FLP on floppies > but I am unsure on how to actually incorporate them into the > boot process, > I've look at all the installation pages on the web site, I even have a > reference book to help but I am not understanding totally. > See this link: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html There is some detailed help in there on how exactly to create the bootdisks, in short, you need a utility to write those images to disk. I hope that helps. Robert Myers Systems Administrator White Rose Internet Service http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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