From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 14:47:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA02004 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:47:16 -0700 Received: from inetgate.prodigy.com (inetgate.prodigy.com [192.207.105.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA01976 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:47:06 -0700 Received: from mail.prodigy.com (mail.prodigy.com [199.4.137.13]) by inetgate.prodigy.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA77811 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 16:27:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 16:33:44 EDT From: PTTL32A@prodigy.com (MR ANDREW S GIBSON) X-Mailer: PRODIGY Services Company Internet mailer [PIM 3.2-342.56] Message-Id: <013.08662914.PTTL32A@prodigy.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install freeBSD2.05 using the CD from Walnut Creek. My aim is to install a system with netwoking features and Xfree. I have an IDE hard drive and IDE CDROM. I have partitioned my disk, 250MB for DOS, 500MB for BSD (which I split into 300MB for / and 200 MB for /usr, and another 64MB for swap. I have copied some files from the cdrom onto the dos partition of my hard drive: xcopy /s d:\dists\bin c:\freebsd xcopy /s d:\floppies c:\freebsd xcopy /s d:\xf86311 c:\freebsd xcopy /s d:\manpages c:\freebsd xcopy /s d:\info c:\freebsd This is all I have room for on my DOS partition. I have made a boot floppy AND a root.flp using rawrite.exe. I proceed with the installation by rebooting my system with the boot floppy in drive a. I go through the installation, and request boot from DOS Hardrive. The installation cannot find the root, and asks for a floppy with root. I insert my root floppy,and then it asks for the bin/aa. It seems that it cannot find the stuff I have put on my hard drive. How do I remedy this situation? Am I doing everything incorrectly? Thanks Andrew Gibson