From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 12:04:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11262 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11140 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10536; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:46:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ian Moore cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from DOS partition In-Reply-To: <34E4074A.C05D6784@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Ian Moore wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install bsd on my machine from a dos partition. I tried to > do it using ftp but had trouble getting an ftp connection. So then I > tried ftping from Windows and downloaded freeBSDcurrent to a directory > called c:\freebsd as per the installation instructions (I don't have the > CD to copy it from). When I try to do the install, it seems to mount the > DOS partition (I've created the BSD partition OK) but it claims it > can't find the bin files (or any other stuff I try to install besides a > basic install). I then tried copying the contents of c:\freebsd\src\bin > to c:\freebsd\bin, but that didn't help. I assume the problem is that I > just don't have the right files in the right place but I'm not sure. > Can you help? I think your paths are wrong. You should have stuff in: C:\ FREEBSD\ BIN\bin.* DOC\doc.* MANPAGES\manpages.* so on.. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message