Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:43:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: JKtheOWL@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing BSD from a directory in DOS Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961119204250.10615O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <961119102231_1116898358@emout18.mail.aol.com>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 JKtheOWL@aol.com wrote: > The problem comes when the install process warns that it cannot find any of > the FreeBSD files downloaded (from ftp6 site referenced in your web pages) > and stored in a DOS directory "c:\freebsd". The various documents on > installation both downloaded and with the install software indicate that > copying from a CDROM or other media to such a directory is sufficient. Did you put them into their respective subdirectories, ie all the bin.* files in \freebsd\bin, manpages in \freebsd\manpages, etc? Did you also put the appropriate *.inf file in there too? Check the ALT-F2 console and check for any unusual messages. > What has been downloaded is the contents of the 2.1.5 release bin, docs, and > manpages directories of the ftp site. Some of the file names cannot be the > same as under your directories. They need to be the same. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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