Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:42:27 -0400 From: "jeff.minick@nationsbank.com" <jeff.minick@nationsbank.com>, To: "junkmale@xtra.co.nz" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>, Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>, Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition Message-ID: <0056440000995462000002L422*@MHS>
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Thanks, I placed the files from the 1st cd in c:\ This time there was no problem extracting the distributions System is up and running Again thanks for your speedy reply!!! You may want to add this to the documentation... Jeff junkmale@xtra.co.nz on 04/04/99 06:22:19 PM Please respond to junkmale@xtra.co.nz @ SMTP To: Jeff Minick/Services/NationsBank@NATIONSBANK cc: questions@freebsd.org @ SMTP Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from a DOS partition 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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