Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:52:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike <sturdee@qtm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970217094655.6933A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702150741.CAA05455@garcon.qtm.net>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Mike wrote: > I've been looking through your site, and see you have install instuctions > for DOS.. I was wondering what i need to do to install FreeBSD on a newly > assembled computer that has not yet been booted. ie, a machine with no operating systems installed? You'll need access to a DOS or UNIX machine with a floppy drive and some way of getting the boot floppy image onto it, being by dial-up, LAN, or CDROM. For DOS, all you need to grab is rawrite.exe from tools/ and the boot floppy image boot.flp from floppies/. For UNIX, you just need boot.flp, then run ``dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0'' (or equivalent device) to copy the image to the disk. Or, you could create a 20mb slice, install DOS on it, rawrite the floppy then blow it away when you get to the FreeBSD slice editor. This is actually a good idea; this way, the slice is created to that it is compatible with booteasy, if you ever plan to install more OSs on this machine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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