From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 24 23:49:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from hydra.cybertap.com (hydra.cybertap.com [204.101.57.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1218E14CC3 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jedi@cybertap.com) X-Apparently-To: Received: from ortugg (pm1-113.cybertap.com [204.101.57.113]) by hydra.cybertap.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id CAA22766 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:48:27 -0500 Message-ID: <000701be6092$fc36e3e0$713965cc@ortugg> From: "Adrian" To: Subject: Documents Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:46:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE6069.11F739C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE6069.11F739C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It's possible that I'm missing something as it's 3am and I'm tired, but = I think your site lacks a great deal of installation information. I've just come from using Linux and wanted to try BSD. I went to = freebsd.org I took the "Getting BSD" link and ended up at = http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html I don't have a BSD = distribution on CD so as this page suggests I took the link leading to = ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT I = load this page to find that it only explains CD and network installs. I then find the link about installing from MSDOS, at the bottom of the = page. It in turn leads me to = http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook15.html#15 This page presumes I = have a BSD CD, and know what's in it's /bin directory. Are there any = instructions for installing BSD from a msdos partition that don't = require me to have a CD? Adrian ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE6069.11F739C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

It's possible that I'm missing = something as it's=20 3am and I'm tired, but I think your site lacks a great deal of = installation=20 information.

I've just come from using Linux and = wanted to=20 try BSD. I went to freebsd.org I took the "Getting = BSD"=20 link and ended up at http://www.freebsd.= org/handbook/install.html =20 I don't have a BSD distribution on CD so as this page suggests I took = the link=20 leading to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT&n= bsp;=20 I load this page to find that it only explains CD and network=20 installs.

I then find the link about installing from MSDOS, at = the=20 bottom of the page. It in turn leads me to http://www.fr= eebsd.org/handbook/handbook15.html#15 =20 This page presumes I have a BSD CD, and know what's in it's /bin=20 directory. Are there any instructions for installing BSD from a = msdos=20 partition that don't require me to have a CD?

Adrian

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