Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:42:37 -0400 (EDT) From: media@mail1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie Questions Message-ID: <v03130300b34eafcc5b8d@[209.150.34.97]> In-Reply-To: <19990429221516.A25381@austin.rr.com>
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I am in the process of trying to install FreeBSD on my first Intel machine.
In the past two weeks I have learned the difference between MS-DOS and
Windows:
Windows sucks and MS-DOS blows :)
I have the following, possibly stupid, questions:
1. I wish to install 3.1 STABLE, yet the only 3.1 I could find at
ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD was in releases/i386/. Is that the right one??
When I go to FreeBSD-stable/ I see packaging, ports, src, sup and
supfile.cvsvp, but nothing such as bin, which would be necessary.
2. When I open the XF86331 directory (I'm using FTP Explorer) it says "no
such file or directory" Where can I get the XF86331 files for the answer
to my first question that are strongly recommended??
3. I do not have a cd-rom drive. I downloaded files from ftp.FreeBSD.ORG
to my primary DOS partition. For example, the path for bin.aa is
C:\FREEBSD\bin\bin.aa
I booted up using kern.flp and mfsboot.flp from floppies, but when I choose
to load the rest from a DOS partition the installer tells me it can't find
any of them. There doesn't seem to be a prompt for a file path. What am I
doing wrong??
4. The boot manager seems to have been installed as I get this at startup:
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
If I choose F2 I get:
No /boot/loader
>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default 0:wd(0,a)/kernel
boot:
So I'm guessing the bin files never loaded. Drive D: no longer appears
under DOS (it's was empty partition made with FIPS 2.0).
When I'm in the FreeBSD installer, and choose to mount my primary DOS
partition, it asks for a name (it asks me to enter a number followed by a
"/"). I chose 1. Which number should I choose??
5. The ports and packages files at ftp.FreeBSD.ORG are compressed. Should
I download them and try to decompress using WINZIP or what?? Or are they
decompressed as they are loaded into FreeBSD??
THANX!!
PEACE OUT :)
MARK
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