Installing Unix
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Name: mdrowles
Date: December 20, 2003 at 10:50:07 Pacific
Subject: Installing Unix
OS: none
CPU/Ram: Intel 667/512Mb
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Comment: I hate to think of the possible flame...but I'm an Information Systems major with no working knowledge of Unix other than telneting to my school's mail server to use Pine 8-) I'm trying now to install NetBSD on an old PC I have with a reformatted hard drive. I downloaded the NetBSD files from an FTP site to my current machine, now I just need to get them from Point A to Point B. Any advice/help ya'll can give would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Total Newbie
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Response Number 1
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Name: Jake
Date: December 24, 2003 at 11:37:21 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Since it doesn't look like anyone else is going to help you, I'll start by saying I've never installed NetBSD. I've installed FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but never NetBSD. If you can get an ISO, burn it and install from CD. You could also use raw[w]rite for DOS and Windows 9x or rawrite32 for NT to make a boot floppy or floppies from the image file[s] you downloaded, and do an FTP installation. If you don't have the bandwidth to download everything again, you could have a local FTP server running Windows provide the installation files you've already downloaded. NetBSD will probably not be able to install from files sitting on a FAT32 partition of the hard drive you want to install to, so FTP or CD are probably the easiest ways to install.
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Response Number 2
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Name: mdrowles
Date: December 30, 2003 at 10:32:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Jake thanks for the advice...very helpful I was basically stuck and now I'm finally getting a response out this old piece of crap machine.
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