From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 15:13:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 15:13:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx758389-c.okcds1.ok.home.com (cx758389-c.okcds1.ok.home.com [24.21.133.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A107937B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from gabrielle (gabrielle.jharris.com [192.168.1.169]) by cx758389-c.okcds1.ok.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA94377; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:45:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from me@jharris.com) From: "Jack Juil Harris, Jr." To: "Andrey Mavrichev" , Subject: RE: Installation - CD Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:07:23 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <3A301550.435D1618@yahoo.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your Link suggests you are using an ALPHA platform. If you are not then I would suggest that be the problem. You should be fine with a CD-writer. ______________________________ Jack J. Harris, Jr. me@jharris.com http://www.jharris.com/~jackh/ PagerMail mailto:jackcell@jharris.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrey Mavrichev Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:55 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation - CD 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message