From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 12:10:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cs.tamu.edu (clavin.cs.tamu.edu [128.194.130.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6446F14DE6 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sks1974@cs.tamu.edu) Received: from dilbert.cs.tamu.edu (IDENT:2708@dilbert [128.194.133.100]) by cs.tamu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06126 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:09:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost by dilbert.cs.tamu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA16804 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:09:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: dilbert.cs.tamu.edu: sks1974 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:09:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Suresh Kumar Satapati X-Sender: sks1974@dilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.3 - Installation problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hai I am trying to install 3.3 release on a 486 machine with 32MB RAM, 500MB hard disk capacity. Since it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, I am trying to install using floppies. i have prepared boot floppies viz. kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. I have also prepared floppies for installation of distributions. I started with 'bin' distribution. When I am trying to install using floppy, i get the folowing message: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Couldnt extract the following distribution. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you've chosen: bin doc manpages proflibs dict info --------------------------------------------------------------------- I formatted my floppy for a UFS using the sequence of commands fdformat, disklabel and newfs, and then i copied bin.aa, bin.ab, bin.ac,....into A:\bin Could you please help me with this problem ? Anticipating a reply at the earliest, I remain. Thanks Suresh (Graduate Student, Texas A&M Univ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message