On Friday 22 September 2006 23:03, "Sunil Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a missive stating: > Hi: > > I downloaded three *.iso images from the www.freebsd.org website and > burnt in on 3 CDs and used the first CD which just contains the > "/boot" directory for starting the installation. My question is: > 1) Why doesn't it ask me to load the next CD in to the CDRom Drive > during the installation, which I presume contains all the required > packages and binaries?
If you have a decent internet connection, just use the bootonly ISO and then grab the packages / files via an FTP or FTP Passive connection during install. Otherwise, just use the 2nd disc. The handbook has some good info: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html should answer your questions. > 2) Will I be able to still boot Linux if I allow FreeBSD to overwrite > the MBR with its own boot loader, which it asks during installation? If you want a nicer looking boot loader then don't install anything into the MBR and configure LILO or GRUB to boot FreeBSD. There are docs in the handbook about this. Just do a search for LILO on the FreeBSD site. > Can somebody please help me with this issue? Check the handbook. It's very good. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr; UF (http://www.userfriendly.org/) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
