Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:37:27 EDT From: Gaertk@aol.com To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: newbie installing from MSDOS partition Message-ID: <20000723203733.1C02B37B90D@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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