Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:54:03 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Kris" <Kris@RasterMind.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <01f901bf7a95$60c40c80$827e03cb@ORACLE> References: <000e01bf7aad$869e10a0$3ed884a9@oemcomputer>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Well I've done it from floppies on some 386's we use as gateway boxes but it takes a while :) There is a trick not explained in the handbook as well as I'd like about exactly what goes on the floppies .... from memory the "Complete FreeBSD" covers it quite well though ..... basically what you need to do is DOS format a bunch of floppies, create "bin" directories on each one & copy as many of the files in the "bin" directory on the FTP site as will fit .... whats not mentioned clearly though is that you MUST put a copy of "bin.inf" on each floppy or it won't work ... at least thats what happened here every time I tried it ----- Original Message ----- From: Kris To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 5:47 PM hey how do i install unix on my system from 1.44 mb disks it has no cd rom or op sys that functions properly help [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.3800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well I've done it from floppies on some 386's we use as gateway boxes but it takes a while :)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a trick not explained in the handbook as well as I'd like about exactly what goes on the</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>floppies .... from memory the "Complete FreeBSD" covers it quite well though ..... basically what</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>you need </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>to do is DOS format a bunch of floppies, create "bin" directories on each one & copy</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as many of the files in the "bin" directory on the FTP site as will fit .... whats not mentioned clearly</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>though is that you MUST put a copy of "bin.inf" on each floppy or it won't work ... at least thats </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what happened here every time I tried it </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:Kris@RasterMind.com" title=Kris@RasterMind.com>Kris</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" title=freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 19, 2000 5:47 PM</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hey how do i install unix on my system from 1.44 mb disks</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it has no cd rom</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or op sys that functions properly</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>help</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>help
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