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From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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I found the installation from a dos partition to be the most confusing.
What seems to me to be a simple install is quite confounding.

I'm wondering if the file 'bin.mtree' could be the cause of my trouble.
DOS abbreviates the 'mtree' suffix to 'mtr'. 

I am also wondering if perhaps your instructions for preparing to
install from a DOS partition "handbook15.html" which discuss copying
files from cdrom to a directory named 'c:\freebsd' do not apply to me. I
have copied the bin.a* components of '/2.1.6-release/bin/' to the
directories 'c:\freebsd\', 'c:\freebsd\bin\', and 'c:\bin\'. I tried all
these possible source paths to see if perhaps I misunderstood the
instructions. Depending on the source path I chose I recieved error
messages "unable to find distribution - bin" or "write error".

Is it necessary for me to move these components to a unix box and
concatenate them there and then ftp them to 'c:\freebsd\'?

I think that having read the instructions several times and following a
fairly intuitive course of actions that I should have been able to pull
this off. Unfortunatley my UNIX experience is not administrative in
nature. But, as an experienced end-user I have never remained stumped by
anything I've tried to do. This ones got me beat.

I was unable to use the ftp media settings because I was unable to
"resolve host ftp.freebsd.org". I then nslookuped ftp.freebsd.org and
used the IP address and was unable to connect. I have a NE2000
compatible ether card. Specifically it is the LinkSYS Ether16 with
IRQ=10 and IO=300h. I am connected to the Univesity of Washington and
have never had any trouble configuring networking until now.

BSDLess in Seattle,
Jason Wells