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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!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Help Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:38:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <54dh16$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <548ipf$gf7@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E audiojay2@aol.com (AudioJay2) wrote: > Hi, i am in need of some help installing FreeBSD, I am currently running > Linux and i wanted to give FreeBSD a shot. I have no CDROM, so i d/led > some of the packages from current-packages on the FTP site > (sysutils,shells,security,net,dev) and i was wondering how i would go > about Installing from a MS-DOS partition? Also, do the names of the files > matter? Eeeek. You started upside down. :-( The packages are additional software you only need once you've got the base system installed. Please, point your web browser to http://www.freebsd.org, search for the handbook, and read chapter 2 ``Installing FreeBSD''. Alternatively, download the files tools/rawrite.exe and floppies/boot.flp, write the latter to a formatted floppy (using rawrite.exe), and read the installation instructions on-line after booting the floppy. Don't worry, no harm will be done to your system until you explicitly confirm that the installation should happen. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)