Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:39:55 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Joe Blackwell <jblackwe@mipos2.intel.com> Cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Jan. '96 release... Message-ID: <5894.821500795@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:56:45 PST." <199601112056.MAA04971@zws002.sc.intel.com>
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> and all the slices are newfs'd properly when that moment arrives. I am able
to
> select the subsets I want to install (including bin of course).
Are you sure you've copied them with the proper subdir info, as is
listed in INSTALL.TXT, e.g.:
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\BIN
C> XCOPY /S E:\FLOPPIES C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES
Asssuming that `C:' was where you had free space and `E:' was where
your CD was mounted. Note that you need the FLOPPIES directory
because the `root.flp' image is automatically looked for there when
you're doing a DOS installation.
For as many `DISTS' as you wish to install from DOS (and you have free
space for), install each one in a directory under `C:\FREEBSD' - the
BIN dist is only the minimal requirement.
Assuming that the answer to this is a "yes", we can go on to further
debugging.
Jordan
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