From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 21:16:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA19209 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 21:16:02 -0700 Received: from Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (root@starbase.NeoSoft.COM [198.64.6.26]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA19203 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 21:16:00 -0700 Received: from scooter-ppp-ae.NeoSoft.com (scooter-ppp-ae.NeoSoft.com [198.65.165.158]) by Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id XAA05990; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:15:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199507120415.XAA05990@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> X-Provider: NeoSoft, Inc.: Internet Service Provider (713) 968-5800 X-Sender: rberndt@popmail.neosoft.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.1.1b5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:17:45 -0500 To: Kristyn Fayette , freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD Questions) From: Randy Berndt Subject: Re: Still can't install from DOS Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When you put the .flp and bin.* files in C:\Freebsd, did you put the .flp in a subdirectory FLOPPIES and bin.* in a subdirectory BIN? It expects the same subdir structure as on the ftp-site or CD. I had the same setup (dos on disk 0, freebsd on disk 1), and got it to install. At 10:59 PM 7/11/95 -0400, Kristyn Fayette wrote: >Hi, > > Ok, maybe this is because I'm blond, but I just can't figure out how to >install from a DOS parition on a physically seperate disk. My 'Label' in >the Install utility looks like this: > >Port Mount Size Newfs >---- ----- ---- ----- >wd0s1 /dos 514MB DOS >wd1s1a / 70MB Y >wd1s1b swap 48MB >wd1s1e /usr 287MB Y > > I've created a C:\FREEBSD directory and put all my bin.* and *.flp files >there. I've chosen 'DOS' to install from a DOS partition. Is it supposed >to ask me what directory it's in? Every time I'm getting told it can't find >root.flp and bin.aa, etc... > > -----Kris > >-- > -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=- > kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu > > Randy Berndt [Signature, like every damned freeway in Houston, is "under construction".]