From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 21:18:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.inetnebr.com (falcon.inetnebr.com [199.184.119.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAB414D00 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xyf@inetnebr.com) Received: from inetnebr.com (kent@lin-hs3-005.inetnebr.com [209.50.4.69]) by falcon.inetnebr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02805 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:16:46 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37098ACE.928F7E82@inetnebr.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 23:17:18 -0500 From: ktb X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Install from Linux directory. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is my first attempt to install FreeBSD. I've used Debian Linux for a couple months and am no power user. I'm trying to install 3.1 and my cd-rom isn't supported. I've made the kernel and root floppies and attempted several installs. I have two hard drives. One with dos/windows95 and the second with Linux. I'm trying to install on the drive with Linux. I have read most of the documentation I can find and looked at the archives. I copied several of the files from cd-rom to dos as instructed into the FREEBSD directory and tried installing from there and got an error "couldn't extract: bin, doc....." I'm not at all familiar with dos so I tried to install from Linux. I copied the entire disk to /home/kent/FREEBSD. I tried to access the files during the install by putting "/home/kent/FREEBSD" in as a valid path. I had no idea if that would work, just took a shot. I got the same error "couldn't extract...." So is there anyway to install from the Linux side? What can I do to get this done? Thanks, Kent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message