CDROM FLOPPY INSTALLATION NOTES
                                FreeBSD
                              Release 1.0

Welcome to FreeBSD!  This document has been put together in an effort
to make initial installation of the system from floppy as easy as possible.

If you have either a SCSI cdrom drive or one of the supported Mitsumi
CDROM drives you can use the cdins-*.flp to install you system with.  This
is much easier than using the 3 floppy install method.

1.  Due to the differences in PC configurations, we've found it necessary
    to provide multiple initial boot images that provide kernels for
    different types of systems.

    If your disk controller is one of:

	MFM / RLL / IDE / ST506
	Adaptec 154x series
	Adaptec 174x series
	Buslogic 545S

    Then please use the disk image:	cdins_ah.flp
    to construct your boot floppy.

    If your disk controller is one of:

	Bustek 742a
	UltraStore 14F or 34F

    Then please use the disk image:	cdins_bt.flp
    to construct your boot floppy.

    To create this floppy use rawrite.exe from the tools directory on
    the cdrom.

2.  Put the FreeBSD CDROM in your CDROM drive, insert the floppy in your
    floppy drive and boot from it.  Follow the instructions
    that floppy gives you.  If partitions  already exist on the hard disk,
    then by default FreeBSD attempts to install itself at the end of these.

3.  When the system asks you to press the return key to reboot, first
    remove the floppy and then press the return key to boot from the hard
    disk.

4.  Congratulations, you've got the base binary FreeBSD system on your disk!

5.  To start using the system login as user root, you should set a password
    for root as soon as possible.  Do this by typing chpass after logging
    in.

6.  To finish configuring your system for a network see the file
    /etc/netstart.  Also read the manual pages for ifconfig (type
    ``man ifconfig'' to see the manual page.)

7.  To mount the FreeBSD CDROM while FreBSD is up and running type:
		mount -t isofs /dev/cd0a /mnt

8.  If you want to install X windows this can easily be done by:
		mount -t isofs /dev/cd0a /mnt
		cd /mnt/tarballs/xfree86
		EXTRACT.sh

    You will need to configure X windows for your display card, see the
    files in /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc for more information.

    
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