From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 13:37:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C02B37B90D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gaertk@aol.com) Received: from Gaertk@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id n.20.90fa0cc (15891) for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:37:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web48.aolmail.aol.com (web48.aolmail.aol.com [205.188.161.9]) by air-id08.mx.aol.com (v75_b1.4) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:37:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:37:27 EDT From: Gaertk@aol.com Subject: newbie installing from MSDOS partition To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown Message-Id: <20000723203733.1C02B37B90D@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I downloaded everything except packages/ from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/releases/i386/4.0-RELEASE onto a Win95 hard drive, and then after a lot of copying and juggling of drives, I finally got it onto a DOS 5.0 formatted drive that I'm using as primary slave in my freebsd comp. The install went fine until the XFree86 part, where I got a bunch of errors about not finding the files in the PC98-Servers/ directory. It would have been nice if sysinstall looked for pc98-ser/ or pc98-s~1/ since I did tell it I was using a dos partition. How do I install those things now? There's no install.sh script or anything. And how do I configure my windows manager? twm tells me it can't open display "". How do I mount my dos drive permanently? Do I need to do anything besides adding a line to /etc/fstab? And what values should I use for Dump and Pass#? And is there any way of finding out which of the 737 things in /dev are actually valid? I'd also like to use my floppy drive for transferring files between this computer and my windows comp; is there any way to semi-permanently mount the floppy drive? Or should I write a set-uid script to do it? Konrad Gaertner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message