From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 16:18:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27460 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27422 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA20658; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:17:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Amir M cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new to FreeBSD - problem installing from floppies - please help In-Reply-To: <35BF04BC.C9737291@sapiens.com> 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 On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Amir M wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I try to install FreeBSD for the first time. I can't get the CD so I > downloaded > the release from the FTP. > > I made the boot diskete and started with it. When it completes it asks > me to > insert a floppy and then it complains: > > Can't extract bin > > How do I arrange the dikettes for installation. Is there something like > disk 1, 2, 3 ... order ? See ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/LAYOUT.TXT for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message