From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 1:11:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D991837B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 01:11:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD7C43F43 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 01:11:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ian.watkinson@ehsbrann.com) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 18YN6f-000HaB-01; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:11:37 +0000 Subject: Re: MSDOS Install From: Ian Watkinson Reply-To: ian.watkinson@ehsbrann.com To: Thomas Spreng Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030113201758.GB3863@rock.stable.ch> References: <20030113201758.GB3863@rock.stable.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: EHS Brann Message-Id: <1042535487.1658.50.camel@pan.ehsbrann.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 14 Jan 2003 09:11:27 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 20:17, Thomas Spreng wrote: > Hi, snip > sorry but i can't understand your question very well, but if you cannot > boot from cd, just make the two installation floppy disks and boot from > them. You can choose your cdrom as installation media even if you boot from > a floopy disk. > The CDROM is a PCMCIA CDROM, so may not be supported by FBSD at all. In the handbook it talks about copying Freebsd to a dos partition to install. However it talks about a /bin directory which doesn't seem to exist, either on the CDROM, or the FTP site. Is this a feature that was documented in the handbook that never actually made it? -- Ian Watkinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message