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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.pgh.net!usenet From: Jim Durham <durham> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please help a newbie. You were once one too! :) Date: 19 Sep 1995 01:02:35 GMT Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc. Lines: 60 Message-ID: <43l4rb$1gi@dropit.pgh.net> References: <42tq5c$7s8@mandolin.qnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: w2xo.pgh.pa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: bruceb@qnet.com X-URL: news:42tq5c$7s8@mandolin.qnet.com Bruce, I hope I remember you questions..I just started using this particular newsreader (netscape) and I don't know how yet to attach your text in reply... Sounds to me like you don't have a supported CD-ROM. I also have a Reveal. So, you're probably not going to be able to install by CD-ROM. First, I assume you are installing 2.0.5R, the latest release.. I'm not a guru, but here's what I think will work... Somehow get the boot and root floppies from one of the FreeBSD mirrors or from freebsd.cdrom.com. This will give you a working "in memory" FreeBSD system. Download the images and "rawrite.exe" from the "tools" directory. Use "rawrite" under DOS to make your boot and root floppies. If this is all on the CD-ROM, use that. I don't have a copy of the CD-ROM so I don't know about that. What you need to get up and running is the "bin" distrution. You need to make floppy disks having a root directory of "bin" and the files in that directory. You want to put 6 files on each floppy, starting with "bin.aa" and going alphabetically until you run out of files in the "bin" group. Select floppy installation, and "custom" installation. In the "custom" menu, select only the "bin" distribution. Partition and disklabeling should be done by now, of course. Now, follow the menus, install the "bin" stuff and reboot. Login, and all should be well, but you won't have man pages, and a lot of stuff. Since you can't access the CD-ROM, you will have to copy each of the distributions to somewhere to install it. I would put them on the DOS partition. Make subdirectories under /dos called "man", "info", ..whatever.. copy the CD-ROM stuff there with DOS. Now, reboot into Unix, and do like this..using "man" for an example. (Make sure you are root to do this, and CD to the root directory, or the installation will go in the wrong place). cat /dos/man/* | tar xvzf - This will concatenate all the files in "man" together, pipe them to gnu tar, and unpack them, with root as the base of the tree. Now, do the rest of the distributions.. Good Luck Jim Durham (non-guru) -- -Jim Durham