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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!hermes.is.co.za!news.gem.co.za!news From: redlodge@gem.co.za (Ian Fennell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installing: am I doing this right? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:50:35 GMT Organization: Global Electronic Messaging Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5cs4np$ra3@news.gem.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: cpt14.gem.co.za X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34810 Hi there, I'm trying to do a minimal install of 2.1.6 on the same HD as Win 95 either from the Dos partition or from floppies. Everything goes smoothly (creating a new partition, installing boot manager...) until the time comes to extract the data from the dist. files. I've downloaded all the files in the "2.1.6-release/bin" directory (bin.aa, etc.), and put them in c:\freebsd\bin. On install I get these messages: . bin bin/cat pid31(gunzip), uid0: exited on signal 11 /stand/cpio: premature end of file "can't find a kernel image to link to on the root..." I've tried putting the files in c:\bin, installing from floppies, and similar strategies; same result. Have I got the right files? Have I put them in a reasonable Dos directories? If anyone can help I'd be most grateful. I have no experience (yet) with FreeBSD or Unix so I may have missed something completely obvious - if I have don't be too polite to point it out! thanks, Ian Fennell ------------------------------------ Ian Fennell redlodge@gem.co.za http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/3776/ http://members.gem.co.za/~redlodge/ ------------------------------------