From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 10:03:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12462 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:03:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12455 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03097; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:03:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Siegel cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with FreeBSD Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Scott Siegel wrote: > I hope someone can help me. I am trying to install FreeBSD (minimal > install) using the DOS partition method. I have a 486 with a 50MB Dos > partition 400MB for Unix partition. I have downloaded all of the files in > the bin directory from the FreeBSD ftp site to the Dos partition. OK. > Now here is the part I can't figure out. The installation guide says to > run the install.bat file to get the installation going. I cannot find this > file anywhere on the ftp site or in the bin directory. I also made a boot > disk and tried installing that way, but I don't think the installation is > finding where I placed the distribution files and it does not boot > correctly. You're reading the CDROM instructions. :-) You need to write the boot.flp image to a disk using rawrite or fdimage, then boot that disk. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major