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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Duncan Orthner wrote:

> 
>      Hi, I want to install FreeBSD on my machine. Is it possible for me to
> transfer the files using a windows ftp program (preserving the dir
> structure) to a DOS partition and then install from there? As near as I
> can tell from the handbook, the 'install from DOS partition' option
> expects the bin files to be gzipped, as I believe they are on the CD. Is
> this possible?

Yes.  YOu need to recreate the directory heirarchy on your c: drive.  See
the INSTALL.TXT file in the top level release directory for full details,
or http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major