From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 09:52:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00862 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:52:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00856 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA06948; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:52:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:52:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199702150741.CAA05455@garcon.qtm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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