From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 13 16:55:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA01601 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA01578 Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:55:29 -0800 (PST) To: Joe Blackwell cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Jan. '96 release... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:56:45 PST." <199601112056.MAA04971@zws002.sc.intel.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:39:55 -0800 Message-ID: <5894.821500795@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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