Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:23:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Kristyn Fayette <kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Still can't install from DOS Message-ID: <199507171623.MAA08795@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0sVswe-0004pHC@bagend.atl.ga.us> from "Jan Isley" at Jul 11, 95 11:58:44 pm
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Hiya,
Thanks. And thanks to all the others who also responded. The problem was
trying to install from a DOS partition and not being able to find any of the
files.
I wrote:
} > I've created a C:\FREEBSD directory and put all my bin.* and *.flp files
} > there.
Jan replied:
}
} Sorry if I overstate the obvious but the individual files must be
} in their appropriate subdirectories just like they are on wcarchive.
What tripped me up was this:
> INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR FreeBSD 2.0.5
>
> 2.3 Before installing from a DOS partition:
>
> To prepare for installation from an MS-DOS partition you should
> simply copy the files from the distribution into a directory called
> "FREEBSD". For example, to do a minimal installation of FreeBSD from
> DOS using files copied from the CDROM, you might do something like
> this:
>
> C:\> MD C:\FREEBSD
> C:\> XCOPY /S E:\DISTS\BIN C:\FREEBSD
> C:\> XCOPY /S E:\FLOPPIES C:\FREEBSD
Well, that xcopy command puts everying into the same directory. It does
not create a \bin directory. The correct command should be:
c:\> xcopy e:\dists\bin c:\freebsd\bin
The system will reply with:
Does BIN specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)?
Enter 'd' and c:\freebsd\bin will be created and filled with the files from
e:\dists\bin. The '/s' parameter isn't needed unless there are subdirectories
off of e:\dists\bin. i.e., if e:\freebsd\bin\patch\ existed, you'd need the
'/s' parameter.
--
-=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=-
kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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