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Subject: Re: installation of freebsd
To: wei@fokus.gmd.de (Lu Wei)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 00:44:02 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199509281517.IAA17012@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Lu Wei" at Sep 28, 95 04:15:24 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> 
> Hi, I will be grateful if somebody can ping me some ideas on how to solve the
> following problem when installing the FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> 1. I have split the existing "C:" into two partitions: sd0s1 and sd0s2.
>    sd0s1 contains the existing user data while sd0s2 is free and for
>    FreeBSD installation. Now, sd0s1 is "C:", sd0s2 is "D:".
> 
> 2. I copied all the "bin.*" and "root.flp" into "C:\FreeBSD".
> 
> 3. After boot-up(using RaWrite.exe and Boot.flp).
>    In "Partition" Menu, I select sd0s2 and set sd0s2 to "A", then quit.
> 
> 4. In "Label" menu, I do nothing and quit.

Why? You have to label the disk and define the mount points/newfs options.


> 
> 5. In "Distribution" menu, I select "Minimal" and exit.
> 
> 6. In "Media" menu, I select "DOS", and further select "sd0s1", then exit.
> 
> 7. When I press "Extract" menu, it shows:
>   " Couldn't extract all of the distributions. This may be because the
>     specified distributions are not available from the installation media
>     you've chosen (residue: 1)."
> 
> 
> Please check my steps.
> 
> Thanks and best regards.
> 
> Wei
> GMD-FOKUS
> GErmany
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de