From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 17:48:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whiterose.net (whiterose.net [199.245.105.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC39537B401 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:48:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccrider2k (adsl-141-151-201-154.cptl.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.151.201.154]) by whiterose.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f091mK319560; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:48:20 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" To: "'JSMolinaro'" , "'FreeBSD'" Subject: RE: MS Win / BSD Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:46:03 -0500 Message-ID: <002201c079dd$edc3f670$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm trying to get FreeBSD installed on my pc and I'm having > trouble. I've > got a dual boot with MS Windows 2000 Professional and Windows > ME. I also > got a partitioned disk, two hard drives with 2000 > professional on one and > Win ME onl the other. > I am running 4.2-RELEASE on my laptop with win2k, not sure how everything works with ME though. > I've got the cd and I've tried booting from it, my pc bios > supports that but > I cannot get anywhere when I boot up in DOS and try to run > INSTALL from the > cd, only VIEW works but then I am at a loss of what to do b/c > most of the > files are .TXT with a few exceptions that don't seem to get > any installation > process started. > Not sure what is happening here, you can't get anywhere with the installation or the CD doesn't do anything when you try to boot it? > In addition, I have zipped the two files MFSROOT.FLP & > KERN.FLP on floppies > but I am unsure on how to actually incorporate them into the > boot process, > I've look at all the installation pages on the web site, I even have a > reference book to help but I am not understanding totally. > See this link: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html There is some detailed help in there on how exactly to create the bootdisks, in short, you need a utility to write those images to disk. I hope that helps. Robert Myers Systems Administrator White Rose Internet Service http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message