From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 23 14:26:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF2E16A416 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:26:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from smtp134.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp134.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A6243D45 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:26:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from [172.20.0.94] (rrcs-24-106-16-90.west.biz.rr.com [24.106.16.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: henrik@ecwwebworks.com) by relay3.r3.iad.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 6B07644C007; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:26:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Henrik Hudson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:26:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <4bf1239f0609222103t352b3a64q4ed17deeae366a70@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4bf1239f0609222103t352b3a64q4ed17deeae366a70@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609230926.52135.lists@rhavenn.net> Cc: Sunil Kumar Subject: Re: Problems during installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:26:54 -0000 On Friday 22 September 2006 23:03, "Sunil Kumar" sent a missive stating: > Hi: > > I downloaded three *.iso images from the www.freebsd.org website and > burnt in on 3 CDs and used the first CD which just contains the > "/boot" directory for starting the installation. My question is: > 1) Why doesn't it ask me to load the next CD in to the CDRom Drive > during the installation, which I presume contains all the required > packages and binaries? If you have a decent internet connection, just use the bootonly ISO and then grab the packages / files via an FTP or FTP Passive connection during install. Otherwise, just use the 2nd disc. The handbook has some good info: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html should answer your questions. > 2) Will I be able to still boot Linux if I allow FreeBSD to overwrite > the MBR with its own boot loader, which it asks during installation? If you want a nicer looking boot loader then don't install anything into the MBR and configure LILO or GRUB to boot FreeBSD. There are docs in the handbook about this. Just do a search for LILO on the FreeBSD site. > Can somebody please help me with this issue? Check the handbook. It's very good. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net ------------------------------ "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr; UF (http://www.userfriendly.org/)