From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 20:44:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02738 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:44:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02729 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA10757; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:43:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:43:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: JKtheOWL@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing BSD from a directory in DOS In-Reply-To: <961119102231_1116898358@emout18.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 JKtheOWL@aol.com wrote: > The problem comes when the install process warns that it cannot find any of > the FreeBSD files downloaded (from ftp6 site referenced in your web pages) > and stored in a DOS directory "c:\freebsd". The various documents on > installation both downloaded and with the install software indicate that > copying from a CDROM or other media to such a directory is sufficient. Did you put them into their respective subdirectories, ie all the bin.* files in \freebsd\bin, manpages in \freebsd\manpages, etc? Did you also put the appropriate *.inf file in there too? Check the ALT-F2 console and check for any unusual messages. > What has been downloaded is the contents of the 2.1.5 release bin, docs, and > manpages directories of the ftp site. Some of the file names cannot be the > same as under your directories. They need to be the same. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major