From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 1 00:41:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA25844 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.jcu.edu.au (cuda.jcu.edu.au [137.219.16.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA25809 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [137.219.38.77] (momuller.jcu.edu.au [137.219.38.77]) by cuda.jcu.edu.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00786 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 17:40:30 +1000 (EST) X-Sender: sci-blm@pop.jcu.edu.au Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 17:37:28 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Ben Marsh Subject: freeBSD instalation Problems?! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can Somebody help me? I am trying to install from floppy but I can't seem to intstall the bin distribution! I copied install.sh bin.mtree (which was truncated to bin.mtr) bin.inf which I dowloaded as text files from ftp.freebsd.org as well as bin.aa and bin.ab(downloaded as binary files) on to the first disk. This disk is formatted to MSDOS fs. when I try to commit changes in the install program the program tells me that it can't install probably because the distribution is missing on the chosen media. I have tried switching to alt-f4 ( I guess this is another process) and type in but the disk light goes on for about 3secs and nothing else happens. Why? Thanks Ben Marsh newbie to freeBSD