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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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