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Date:      Thu, 07 Dec 2000 17:55:12 -0500
From:      Andrey Mavrichev <mavrichev@yahoo.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Installation - CD
Message-ID:  <3A301550.435D1618@yahoo.com>

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Hi,

I am trying to install a FreeBSD to my computer, but I do not have a
standard FreeBSD CD. However I have a CD-writer, so I downloaded all the
necessary distribution files from your FTP site
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.0/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.2-RELEASE/) and then
copied them on the CD. I booted from floppies, and in the "options" menu
specified the installation from the CD-ROM. All went fine while it
installed the distribution files, but then it displayed the message that
it can't install kernel.

My computer does not support booting from a CD-ROM, so in any case I
will have to boot from floppies. Can you tell me what configuration the
standard CD uses, and how that might be different from the one I used on
my CD (I had all distributions placed in the proper directory on the CD,
ex. D:\BIN\bin.aa, D:\BIN\bin.ab, etc...). I had the following
distributions on my CD in this manner: \bin, \dict, \doc, \manpages,
\ports, \proflibs, \src, \XF86336.

Please inform me of a way to create a valid CD for installation using a
CD-writer,

thank you for your help,

Andrey Mavrichev.

mavrichev@yahoo.com


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