Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:36:32 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <45231E30.3000307@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <a25afc300610031921j4f8902d8qb8819462c55a6c35@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061002142352.54855.qmail@web57114.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20061003124706.daxycvdbs44o4g4o@216.14.208.16> <a25afc300610031921j4f8902d8qb8819462c55a6c35@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jan gestre wrote: > On 10/4/06, Pete C <bsdneo@thechristies.net> wrote: >> >> >> Quoting Michael Christensen <conphara@yahoo.com>: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I really hope that you're answering questions about installing >> > FreeBSD, since I can't yet start threads on freebsdforum.org. >> > >> > My question is : >> > I have downloaded the entire FreeBSD 6.1 (about 17,5 GB) and made >> > a FREEBSD directory on one of my HDs and now trying to install BSD >> > on the other. >> > I'm booting from floppies and now can't understand why the >> > sysinstall can't find the DOS partition on the slave. Is it because >> > it's on a NTFS or what am I doing wrong? >> > >> > Thomas >> > >> . . the easier way to install is to download the .iso files and burn >> them to CD . . then use your boot floppies to start the install from >> the CDs (or just boot from the CD if supported by your equip) >> >> Pete C > > > since you were to able download that much file size, i agree with pete the > best way to install is via the .iso files, i dunno why is that the FreeBSD > files you downloaded amounted to that much space that's odd, when i > downloaded the iso's before, it only consists of iso's so that equals 2 cd. Sounds like Michael downloaded / mirrored the entire site for no reason. Haha.. kind of defeats the purpose of the online installer because you no doubt won't install all of the items that you found on the FreeBSD site. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFIx4w6CkrZkzMC68RAlnTAJ4gS1C1vHH15yEH6uiN1KgC0R8IgwCeJfsE VUrADNgyDOZa7CkbtoORZBA= =c+R0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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