From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 17:53:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA08133 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wedge.its.utas.edu.au (cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA08125 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.7.6/8.6.6) id LAA27934; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:53:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:53:22 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au Reply-To: Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au To: Philip Smith cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD release 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <326AB8F8.675D@hooked.net> 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 Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Philip Smith wrote: > I recently purchased a cdrom with freebsd release 2.1.5. > > I tried to install it on my computer, and the first problem i > encountered was that the release didn't contain a copy of the atapi.flp > file, or the root.flp file. To get around this, I used the 2.1.0 > relesae atapi.flp and root.flp file names to install 2.1.5. Should this > have worked? > 2.1.5 doesn't have a separate floppy image for IDE CDROM drives. Just use the normal boot.flp. Also, there is no root.flp image with 2.1.5. I doubt that installing from a 2.1.0 image would work very well. Cheers, Carey ========================================================================= | Carey Nairn | email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au | | Infrastructure Services | phone : (03) 6226 7419 | | Information Technology Services | fax : (03) 6226 7898 | | University of Tasmania. | int'l : (+61 3) | =========================================================================