From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 21:08:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20546 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20537 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrF-09.aei.ca [206.186.205.9]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05849; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 00:07:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35A440E2.F451EF89@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:02:42 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neill Grusning CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clarify? References: <000701bdaac3$1a16fa20$fb6760cb@xtra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Neill Grusning wrote: > > Hi. > I would like some help with FreeBSD installation. I have set it up, I > think correctly, & get to the stage, of installing the bin.aa, etc > disks. At this stage, I get an error message. My question is, how do I > install these 13 bin.aa, etc, disks? At this stage, I can reboot the > system, & it boots OK, and gets to the BOOT prompt, & scrolls every 5 > seconds or do. Typing anything at the Boot rompt, brings up, "Can't > find Kernel".I have downloaded fdimage.exe, & all 66 bin.xx files, > plus boot.flp. I have created the boot floppy, and put 5 bin.xx files > into a A:\bin directory.( All bin.xx files occupy 13 disks). > My computer is a 486DX/100, with 8 meg of ram. It has a 200 meg > H/drive, (C:>) the whole of which is to be dedicated to FreeBSD. I > have a second 80 meg H/drive, (D:>) at present unused. > I stsrted to download the Manpages.aa, etc, files, are these > necessary, at this stage? > Are there other files I require? I confess, I am stymied, & being > not familiar with this system, makes things difficult. Can you help > me, please? > > Neill Grusning (ZL1ACO) > 28 Ocean Beach Road. > Tairua via Thames > New Zealand 2853 Please, remove your HTML and wrap your line to 72 characters and remail your question. It's currently unreadable for a lot of peoples. For more informations, please read: http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/how-to-ask-en.html or http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/how-to-ask-fr.html and http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more complete information. Tank you -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message