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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!und.ac.za!trixie.udw.ac.za!nowhere.uucp!nana From: nana@nntp.udw.ac.za (Bhavic Nana) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD from scratch Date: 26 Aug 1996 11:02:08 GMT Organization: Godcorp Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4vs07g$pkv@trixie.udw.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: sideburn.udw.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Could somebody please post me the FreeBSD FAQ or explain to me exactly how I could go about installing FreeBSD with the following in mind: 1. Attempted to install by ftp, but for some reason (prolly some network thing, I don't know, I'm a novice) it was unable to even resolve the server (pretty sure everything was entered correctly, except hostname, which I was confused about). 2. Attempted to install by stiffie, but the installation was unable to find the bin files, although we had them on the disk from the ftp site /bin dir. Is it necessary to have the install.sh, bin.mtree and umm. that other non bin.?? file on the first disk? ie: /bin.aa /bin.ab /bin.ac /bin.ad /bin.mtree /install.sh Umm, I'm pretty sure we did everything right and attempted several different things. Is it necessary to rawrite the /bin files onto the stiffie? If so, its going to be painstaking considering I'd have rawrite about 72 files one at a time (can't rawrite multiple files, right?). That's about all I can remember, help would be appreciated, please reply to the address: nana@sideburn.udw.ac.za NaNa