From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 11:27:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E5814E75 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990413182701.ZHBD5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 06:27:01 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: john michelini Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 06:25:30 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FTP installation instructions Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990413170050.18568.qmail@aw164.netaddress.usa.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990413182701.ZHBD5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Apr 99, at 10:00, john michelini wrote: > I would like to install from an FTP site, but I found the documentation > around the area for creating the floppy disks (in DOS) to be rather > unclear. I think I am supposed to have two freshly formatted disks at > hand, and I have downloaded FDIMAGE to my hard disk, but the DOS commands > listed don't seem to apply to my particular cofiguration (a laptop with > two partitioned drives: C: and D:). Also, when at the FTP site, it's > unclear which directories I should be in to find the files. Have a read of http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/dual.htm and skip down to the floppies section. I hope that's enough to get you going. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message