From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 4 16: 0:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janeway.nbsi.com (janeway.nbsi.com [167.70.220.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08B414D46 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff.minick@nationsbank.com) Received: from nationsbank.com ([167.70.64.10]) by janeway.nbsi.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA510D for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:59:04 -0400 Received: from LMS ([159.187.239.22]) by nationsbank.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with SMTP id AAA5E2B for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:58:27 -0400 Received: by LMS (Soft-Switch LMS 3.1.1) with snapi via NOTES id 0056440000980213; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:52:52 -0400 From: "jeff.minick@nationsbank.com" , To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , Subject: Installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition Message-ID: <0056440000980213000002L432*@MHS> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:52:52 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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