Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:11:25 -0700 From: charon@freethought.org To: media@mail1.nai.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Questions Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990429231125.00a52290@mail> In-Reply-To: <v03130300b34eafcc5b8d@[209.150.34.97]> References: <19990429221516.A25381@austin.rr.com>
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At 01:42 AM 4/30/99 -0400, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: >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. You can install 3.1-RELEASE and upgrade by source later (via ctm or cvsup), or you could install a snapshot (basically a binary release of -STABLE at that point - see ftp://releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/). >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?? Well, I've always downloaded the binaries from http://www.xfree86.org, but that's not the way most people do it around here, apparently :) You can install X from the ports after you've installed FreeBSD. >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?? Look at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT. Basically, there's a bug in 3.1, so just put everything in C:\bin\*, C:\src\*, etc., and don't use the \FREEBSD directory. >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). Considering question 3, I'd say your guess is right. >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?? They'll be decompressed as you load them into FreeBSD - 'pkg_add' and 'make' take care of just about everything for you. Hope you have fun with FreeBSD! __________________________________________ Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein __________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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