From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 23:33: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B710837B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:33:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4465543FA3 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by franky.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1S7WvdC031315; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:32:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.17]) by hewey.af.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1S7WuOn039145; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:32:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:32:56 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: massey@rmci.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy installalation - But In-Reply-To: <3712.216.222.104.2.1046384976.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> Message-ID: <20030228172836.G38769-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > So Floppy is the ONLY way possible to do any kind of install so far as I > can see. No CD No CABLE No Nothing but floppies > > So I need to know is the /BASE in 5.0 the same as /BIN in 4.7 so I can > start rolling out floppies. > Yes, you need kern.flp, mfsboot.flp, and all of directory base/ to get a minimal 5.0 system. You'll need about 190 floppy disks. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message