Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: RYAN DARBY <DARBY1@x400.telkom400.inca.za> Cc: ", DDA.RFC-822:questions(a)freebsd.org, P:TELKOM, A:TELKOM400ZA" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: It just can't fit Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960801212109.219J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <0119114071830524*@MHS>
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, RYAN DARBY wrote: > I sent a question a few weeks ago asking how to remove booteasy from > my PC. Thank you very much for the help I recieved. I am very > grateful. > > My main problem was that I could not install FreeBSD 2.0.5 from a DOS > partition, as my CD-ROM is IDE. 2.1.0 and above supports the ATAPI/IDE CDROMs. The 2.1.5 CD should be out shortly. > I figured out what was wrong : In the > online documentation, it says copy the dists\bin and floppies directories > to the IDE harddrive, using xcopy /s z:\dists\bin c:\freebsd. > However, this copies it all into one c:\freebsd directory. The installation, > however, seems to want it as c:\freebsd\bin and freebsd\floppies. > Also, I copies kernel to the root of the c:\, with root.flp and boot.flp. > I also ran install from the harddrive, not from the CD-ROM. > Anyway, it worked, exept : > > About half way through copying accross during the installation, I run out > of space. The online doc says 15M for a minimal installation. I had > / at 25M, swap at 5M and /usr at 5M. I have a 40M IDE drive. Is this > all big enough? No, absolutely not. > The back of the CD says 60M minimum. What is the real > minimum? How can I select only the minimum files to install? Must the > whole BIN directory, from AA to C something be installed? The CD back is more accurate. You need to have the entire bin distribution _at least_. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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