Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:20:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "K.V.S. Sankaram" <kasturi@teil.soft.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960513101513.29695A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960513122639.18402A-100000@teil.soft.net>
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, K.V.S. Sankaram wrote: > 1) We are going to get some IBM 486/pentium PCs on which we would like to > install FREEBSD. Assuming that we do not install DOS on that what is the > procedure to install FREEBSD directly on the machines ? Just follow the normal install procedure. When fdisk asks if you want to keep it compatible, just answer no. I would keep a botable DOS disk with a copy of FDISK handy though-- you may need to make a small DOS partition on your hard drive so FreeBSD will pick up the geometry correctly. > 2) How to get the FREEBSD OS (binary form) from your FTP sites quickly(if > possible, in a compressed format). I could not understand the earlier > answer sent by you. The files in /bin, etc. are compressed, just split. If these machines are to be equipped with CDROMs, the by the FreeBSD CD and install from that. It'll be much quicker than floppies or FTP from ftp.freebsd.org. If these machines are to be network-capable then install via FTP from ftp.freebsd.org. Ifd you want to build a floppy set, download floppies/boot.flp or atapi.flp (if they have ide cdrom's), the entire /bin directory, and any other distributions you want. Copy as many files as will fit to floppies, label, and insert when prompted. See INSTALL for more info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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