From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 03:39:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA25080 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 03:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freedom.landoflakes.com (root@freedom.landoflakes.com [208.16.81.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA25074 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 03:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kbolson.landoflakes.com (ppp12.landoflakes.com [208.16.81.112]) by freedom.landoflakes.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA11926 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 05:36:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <340402B8.674E@landoflakes.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 05:34:32 -0500 From: "Keith R. Bolson" Organization: Data Signal Laboratories X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions about freeBSD installation. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. I wanted to try freeBSD. I have a laptop using W95 to get the sw over the net, an iomega zip 100MB to move stuff with and a target system - a junk 486 with 32 MB ram. In any case, I can't ftp from my target system, so I'd like to know what files I need to do the install. The boot disk boot.flp boots and I partition a 300MB after the DOS partition. - Novice user, binaries and doc install. I get lost, tho, when it expects the other files from CDROM/DOS/FTP to do this installation. The kernel isn't found. Can I place the freeBSD distribution files on the DOS partition and install from there? Does freeBSD support a printer-port iomega zip drives ? .. probably. I'd appreciated any assistance you can give me. Thank you. --krb