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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: double UGH ide cdrom
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References: <46f0sr$fnd@portal.gmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 18:26:30 GMT
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In article <46f0sr$fnd@portal.gmu.edu>,
Brian T Neel (CS) <bneel@site.gmu.edu> wrote:
>off the cdrom...failing that I figured I would load the distribution piece by
>piece off my 80 meg partition, but the install disk will not let me select
>individual portions without re-partitioning my HD with each install..
> If anyone could tell me a work-around or at least where to find the atapi
>boot disk I would appreciate it..
Only use the install disk to install the basics: bindist and whatever
else will fit in your DOS partition.
For the rest, boot DOS and copy an entire distribution to your DOS
disk, re-boot into FreeBSD, mount the DOS partition, and then run
the handy shell script included with the distribution, which is there
to handle the unpacking and installation for you.
- Tim