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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install from DOS partition.. Date: 28 Aug 1995 09:51:03 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 38 Message-ID: <41s3i7$rfn@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41qj69$nfv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: ilin@mit.edu X-URL: news:41qj69$nfv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU ilin@mit.edu (I-Lin Wang) wrote: >but I found I can't install FreeBSD via my CD-ROM. And my 3c509 ethernet card >somehow can't be detected. So, I decided to install it via copyinig the files Did you check the hardware guide for notes on getting the 3c509 to work? It apparently requires some special fiddling to get it to work. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find this information at the moment! No doubt about it, our FAQ needs a permuted index! :-) [Hmm, make that a :-( ] >md: d:\freebsd >xcopy /s e:\floppies c:\freebsd\floppies\ >xcopy /s e:\dists c:\freebsd\ Hmm. I'm confused. Why are you making a directory called d:\freebsd but copying the files onto c:\freebsd? BTW, the 2.0.5 install is pretty simplistic and assumes that the \FREEBSD directory is ALWAYS on C:. I will fix this in 2.1! >1. now, my wd0 is my c: (the 850MB one), wd1 is the 1GB one. When I plan to > partition the wd1, it can't recognize my DOS partition(remember, I already > have 400MB DOS in this disk). Should I create the slice for BSD now?(yes, I > guess), but how much should I create so that it won't affect my original > 400MB DOS partition? You can use any space marked as "unused" in the fdisk editor for either disk. You should also see your DOS partition on both drives and be able to mount it, you need to do this from the disklabel editor. >3. what I did is to choose the DOS partition installation, and it has a message > said-->There is no DOS partition in this HD!! For which drive? I'm somewhat lost at this point! :-) Maybe you should send me personal email on this and we'll hash out the situation together.. Jordan