From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 10:17:33 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 10:17:30 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B3037B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from postoffice.pacbell.net ([206.171.36.70]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G6R008Y96O597@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:14:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 10:19:24 -0800 From: mweber@postoffice.pacbell.net Subject: installation To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: mweber@pacbell.net Message-id: <3A5761AB.6744C73E@postoffice.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-PBI-NC404 (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I bought (from fry's) the most recent release. The CD-ROM has no installation.bat that I know of. My computer is an older one (dec lpx+) which has been upgraded from 48633 to a 486 100. I have 2 disks (recognized) and 40 megs of memory. A creative CD which is not bootable but is Matsushita 563. It is recognized by 2 different LINUX distributions but not your FREEBSD. Also, your documentation on how to install from floppies (just a bare system) leaves a lot to be desired. First you are very unclear about what files by name are needed. Or your math is way off. What gives and why cannot I install ? At this point LINUX seems to be the way to go since the distributors are interested in getting people to install it therefore they recognize the older machine and can deal with it. By the way, I will not be shareing a disk. I have one which I will dedicate to (UNIX Or linux). Please help me. I would really like to try it but !!!!! need to install. Martin Weber mweber@pacbell.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message