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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@morse.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Date: 07 Mar 1994 17:08:56 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Mar7170857@morse.ilo.dec.com> References: <Pine.3.89.9403031855.A11983-0100000@umbc9.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: morse.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: gurban1@gl.umbc.edu's message of 3 Mar 1994 18:54:38 -0500 In article <Pine.3.89.9403031855.A11983-0100000@umbc9.umbc.edu> gurban1@gl.umbc.edu (Gregory Urban) writes: I wish to install FreeBSD on my hard drive. Currently I have 2 Seagate SCSI drives. One drive is being used for DOS (because I have no BSD yet ;-) ), and the other will be used exclusively for BSD. The BSD drive has been low-level formatted, and not touched by fdisk. What I want to do is download BSD from a machine at school. From my account I can access the entire FreeBSD distribution (both source and binary). I access my I suggest you download the binary distribution onto your DOS partition while you're in DOS. Then download and make the floppy disks (you'll find the images and a rawrite.exe utility for writing them in the floppies and tools directories, respectively). Boot the floppies, go through the install procedure, and when it gets to the stage of asking if you want to install the rest from your DOS partition (which it will auto-detect), you're home free! Jordan