From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 16:33: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from superman.imag.net (superman.imag.net [207.200.148.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F58154E1 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:33:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markh@lon.imag.net) Received: from mark.imag.net (lon-p28.wwdc.com [207.200.138.29]) by superman.imag.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA17339 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:33:27 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Hendriks Reply-To: markh@lon.imag.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie help with installing FreeBSD Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:10:56 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <19991229000214.982.qmail@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99122819313500.00489@mark.imag.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Monica Natrajan wrote: > Hi > I am trying to install FreeBSD on a separate partition on a Celeron > machine(with win 98 on the other partition). > I do not have a CD ROM and was planning to do it after downloading the > software off the web. > However, the installation instructions that are given are a little > confusing. I have tried to download from ftp://ftp.ca.freebsd.org > but I get only directories containing the src code- are there any binaries > which can be downloaded? It sounds like you were trying to install without using the boot floppies. You can't just download a bunch of files and expect to have a running operating system - at the very minimum, the operating system needs to be configured to your hardware. FreeBSD has an install program. If you are going to install from FTP, you will need to make the boot floppies, which also contain the install program. On the FreeBSD homepage, click on "Obtaining FreeBSD." You will see instructions for downloading FreeBSD off of the Internet, including how to make the boot floppies. / ghIj qet jaghmeyjaj \ / jaghmeylI' DaghIjjaj qetjaj jaghmeylI' \ \ - "May your enemies run with fear" / \ "The Klingon Way" Mark Okrand, 1996 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message