From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 14:56:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2.iol.it (mta.iol.it [195.210.91.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D12311099 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from albertodegiorgi@iol.it) Received: from oemcomputer ([195.210.75.140]) by mta2.iol.it (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA20F0 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:16:31 +0100 Message-ID: <000701be59f1$d1d462a0$8c4bd2c3@oemcomputer> From: "Alberto De Giorgi" To: Subject: Installing freebsd from a msdos partition Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:14:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE59F9.BEA70C20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE59F9.BEA70C20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Sir or Madame , I had some problems trying to install FREEBSD from a MS-DOS partition . = The bin and manpages dists seem to be correctly installed but I can't = say the same thing for XFREE86 3.3.3.1 . I downloaded the dists from = the web and they are in the /BIN , /MANPAGES , /XFREE86 subdirectories = of the c:/FREEBSD directory . I've the doubt this is not the right tree = structure the FREEBSD directory should have ( it should be a copy of the = tree structure of the CDROM , which I'm missing ). So , my questions are = : what is the tree structure of the CDROM that I've to replicate in the = FREEBSD directory ? Is this the reason why the XFREE86 installation = process fails ? How can I be sure the XFREE86 installation process has = been completed , if I don't know in what directory XFREE86 has been = installed ( I didn't find this information anywhere) ? Maybe you = consider these questions a little silly , and probably they are . But = this is the first time I use a unix-like system so I hope you will be = very patient with me .=20 My e-mail address is albertodegiorgi@iol.it=20 Hoping to receive your reply very soon I send you my best regards Massimo De Giorgi ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE59F9.BEA70C20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Sir or Madame ,
I had some problems trying to install = FREEBSD=20 from a MS-DOS partition . The bin and manpages dists seem to be = correctly=20 installed but I can't say the same thing for  XFREE86 3.3.3.1 . I=20 downloaded the dists from the web and they are in the /BIN , /MANPAGES , = /XFREE86  subdirectories of the c:/FREEBSD directory . I've the = doubt this=20 is not the right tree structure the FREEBSD directory should have ( it = should be=20 a copy of the tree structure of the CDROM , which I'm missing ). So , my = questions are :
what is the tree structure of the CDROM = that I've=20 to replicate in the FREEBSD directory ? Is this the reason why the = XFREE86=20 installation process fails ? How can I be sure the XFREE86 installation = process=20 has been completed , if I don't know in what directory XFREE86 has been=20 installed ( I didn't find this information anywhere) ? Maybe you = consider these=20 questions a little silly , and probably they are . But this is the first = time I=20 use a unix-like system so I hope you will be very patient with me .=20
My e-mail address is albertodegiorgi@iol.it
Hoping=20 to receive your reply very soon I send you my best=20 regards
Massimo De = Giorgi
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