Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:52:52 -0400 From: "jeff.minick@nationsbank.com" <jeff.minick@nationsbank.com>, To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Subject: Installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition Message-ID: <0056440000980213000002L432*@MHS>
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system: compaq systempro/lt 4gig disk space 60m ram tried running the cd from dos...didn't work. help! I have copied the entire 1st cd of release3.1 onto my DOS partition(c:\freebsd\), I have also copied the bin dir from the 2nd cd into c:\freebsd\bin. I ran through the install and at the end of mounting the newfs it said cannot extract distributions because they were not on the installation media specified: bin doc manpages proflibs dict info compat22 when i reboot to FreeBSD I get no /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: and leaves me there. any thoughts appreciated... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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