Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:28:21 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "jeff.minick@nationsbank.com" <jeff.minick@nationsbank.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition Message-ID: <19990404232904.CJOW5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <0056440000980213000002L432*@MHS>
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On 4 Apr 99, at 18:52, jeff.minick@nationsbank.com wrote: > 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 I think that's because it actually wants the files in a different place. I used c:\bin but I think c:\release will work. If that fails, see what I did on my website: http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/dual.htm If that doesn't get it working, please let us know. > 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. Yep. That's because it removed the old kerenel. If you do an ls, you'll see kernel.prev. You can boot with that one. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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