From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 19:16:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA08363 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA08338 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00326; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:16:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: APRIM@mv3900.svl.photronics.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good news on Installation Error In-Reply-To: <960920095130.2080b8e7@mv3900.svl.photronics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 APRIM@mv3900.svl.photronics.com wrote: > We gave up on installing from DOS Partition and tried from floppies > which worked ok. Since I have Windows 95 installed, probably had > something to do with it "per instructor" (never tried FreeBSD > installation With W.95 installed). > > Any way, we installed UNIX from Floppies (/BIN), but couldn't install > MANPAGES due to bad floppies or missing continues programs. The floppy install is not well documented. You have to put the *.inf file for the next distribution on the previous floppy set, ie put the manpages.inf file on the last bin disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major