From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 17:13:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14534 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:13:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sns.com (jack.sns.com [199.35.183.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA14519 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from speedy by mail.sns.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0w7ssf-000Q2nC; Thu, 20 Mar 97 17:12 PST Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970320171151.0083eba0@mail.sns.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.sns.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:12:25 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Coping Files From MS-DOS to a BSD Partitian? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:17 PM 3/20/97 -0500, Richard J. Linane wrote: >The only choice I have to install from as a source is a DOS Partitian or >from alot of floppies. > >I think it might intail the mounting of the MS-DOS partitian on the same >drive. >Do I need to mount the partitian to do this and if so how? > >Sincerly, >Rich Linane >Typh0on@concentric.net It's all explained in the installation readme files in the directory with the distribution files. You make a directory on your drive C: called FREEBSD. Under that, copy all the distributions you want to install, the minimum being bin. When you boot off the floppy, tell it you're installing from a FAT partition. It should find the files fine. --Ludwig Pummer ----------------------------------------------------------------- ludwigp@sns.com http://chipweb.home.ml.org http://www.sns.com/~ludwigp <--^-- Updated 11/22/96 PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page