From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 13:45:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11515 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11500 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19883; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:49:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Pierre Sarrazin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1.0-R In-Reply-To: <199604291536.LAA21766@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: > But I solved my problem. I went into the holographic shell using Alt-F4, > I mounted the slave disk's 2.0.5 filesystem on /mnt and the master disk's > DOS partition on /dos. Then I copied the bin dist from the 2.0.5 fs to > the DOS partition (in C:\FREEBSD\BIN). After that, I selected "DOS partition" > in the Media menu and the rest went relatively well. Ah. The install wasn't meant to go through another UFS, although I faintly remember an option to install FROM an UFS. Oh well. > I thought that when I cleared the set of distributions to install, > it would avoid extracting the bin dist. I also thought that the > GENERIC kernel to be put on the hard disk was some sort of modified > copy of the boot floppy's kernel. > > I guess I thought too much. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major