Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:08:32 -0500 From: Bibudh Lahiri <bibudh@gmail.com> To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 7.1 from a DOS partition Message-ID: <e522914f0904251008h59e747e4wbc276050f402f517@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 on the D: drive of my Windows XP machine. I've FTPed the entire content of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/ to my D: drive= . Section 2.13.4 ("Installing from an MS-DOS=AE Partition") of the following webpage http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html says "the BIN distribution is the only one required for a minimum installation." Can someone explain what the BIN distribution is and where i= s it located on the FTP server? I do not see any BIN folder in the contents I downloaded. Moreover, I read from the following URL http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/newbies/2003-09/0032.html that once I've copied the directories, I can simply launch the installation from floppies as normal and select "DOS" as my media type when the time comes. But changing the boot option to "Floppy Drive" makes the boot fail. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance Bibudh --=20 Bibudh Lahiri Graduate Research Assistant Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~bibudh/
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