From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 23:37:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08782 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08771 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00332; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:37:40 -0700 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:37:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Richard Bach cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems installing 2.2-960612-SNAP on toshiba laptop In-Reply-To: <199606281959.PAA09656@igw2> 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, 28 Jun 1996, Richard Bach wrote: > I am trying to load the 2.2 snap on a toshiba tecra 700ct laptop. > 120mh pentium based system. It has two internal ide controllers and > an atapi cd. I am trying to load from floppies since I cannot get any > of the other types of installations to work. I am using the boot.flp > from the snap directory. The distribution seems to be looking for a > file called bin.tgz not the individual bin.xx files. It also seems to be > looking in the directory /dist/bin. Any ideas or help would be greatly > appreciated. You didn't try atapi.flp to get the CD working. It's acting like it wants the CD through. At what point do you think there is a problem? (A transcript of the installation would help) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major