From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 01:10:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA09211 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 01:10:30 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA09036 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 01:02:07 -0800 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12555; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:00:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199511070900.KAA12555@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: how do I install freebsd on my system? To: 91gotter@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (GOTTER PAUL DANIEL) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:00:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511062011.AA28372@wave.scar.utoronto.ca> from "GOTTER PAUL DANIEL" at Nov 6, 95 03:11:30 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 842 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi all, > > I've got 40 megs free on my 386DX system and I would like to install > freebsd. I've downloaded these files from the ftp site, and they were in > the floppy directory: boot.flp fixit.flp atapi.flp root.flp, > is that all I need to get started. And how do I uncompress > these files to floppy disks? As you can tell, I need A LOT of help! > Thanks. If you have a unix system nearby you can dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0a obs=9216 or get RAWRITE.EXE (a DOS program) and write the boot.flp image (under DOS) to the boot floppy. RAWRITE boot.flp Start wth booting from the boot.flp and continue from there with the installation menu. 40 megs is darn tough. Also you ought to have at least 5 MB of RAM. > > Paul Gotter > 91gotter@wave.scar.utoronto.ca > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de