From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 22:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f53.hotmail.com [216.32.181.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B313F14FEE for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 22:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bessa310@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 90155 invoked by uid 0); 9 May 1999 05:26:35 -0000 Message-ID: <19990509052635.90154.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 163.121.200.4 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 08 May 1999 22:26:34 PDT X-Originating-IP: [163.121.200.4] From: "sherif bassionni" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: about installation Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 22:26:34 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have been trying to do a right installation of the '3.1 stable version' of freeBSD which i got throught FTP form ftp3.fr.frebsd.org well installation from a dos partition is my choice but this does not seem to be a good thing to do because the installation program CAN NOT find the distribution files on the HDD although i did put the files in the same directory structure by which they were downloaded and included every thing in a directory called freebsd on the root of drive c: my H/W cofiguration is : -K6-233 ANR -Atrend ATC-5050 mother board -64 MB of Ram -540 MB HDD ,i am using an old seagate st3660a operating in LBA mode -Acer peripherals CD-ROM 24Xmax -S3 vierge display adapter -yamaha opl/3 sax sound board i tried about three times to use different options but ....... i would be gratefull if you would tip me off what to do to get thing working the right way please reply to bessa310@hotmail.com thank you anyway ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message