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From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 02:52:38 GMT
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In article <2n7rd4$lke@news.cs.tulane.edu> loki@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (the mischeivious god) writes:
>I just got my cd-rom copy of freeBSD...it did not come with an installation
>diskette....and to make it bootable I would have to format it from an already
>operating BSD system right? So how can they call it an installation diskette?
1. Format three diskettes under MS-DOS.
2. Access the CD-ROM under DOS, execute rawrite.exe and tell it to
copy the three disk images to the three disks. You'll have to
choose the correct alternative for the boot disk, based upon your
hardware. Use MS-DOS to read the instruction files.
3. Reboot your system with the boot disk in drive A and install.
That's how they can call it an install disk. To reduce the above to the
minimum,
1. Use MS-DOS to read the instruction files.
>Which comes first the chicken of the egg....Thank you to Walnut Creek CD-rom
>for the non-accessable documentation and boot/install files....
As the saying goes, RTF ... F.
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