From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 14:00:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA06300 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from inet16.us.oracle.com (inet16.us.oracle.com [192.86.155.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA06278 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from BKADAMS@us.oracle.com) Received: from mailsun2.us.oracle.com (mailsun2.us.oracle.com [144.25.88.74]) by inet16.us.oracle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02517; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by mailsun2.us.oracle.com (SMI-8.6/37.8) id OAA09477; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:09:12 -0800 Message-Id: <199801082209.OAA09477@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> Date: 08 Jan 98 13:37:23 -0800 From: "Brady K. Adams" To: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Trying to install from floppies Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Orcl-Application: In-Reply-To:UNX09.US.ORACLE.COM:Vega011@aol.com's message of 04-Nov-97 16:19 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Oracle InterOffice (version 4.1.1.3.40) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_ORCL_17011067_0_0" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk --=_ORCL_17011067_0_0 Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit Content-Type:text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I did try you suggestion, however, the installer is still not working. I also noticed that the installation process does not even try to access the disk drive. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Brady K. Adams bkadams@us.oracle.com --=_ORCL_17011067_0_0 Content-Type:message/rfc822 Date: 04 Nov 97 13:19:39 From:Vega011@aol.com Sender:Vega011@aol.com To:bkadams@us.oracle.com Subject:Fwd: Trying to install MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit Content-Type:text/plain; charset="us-ascii" --------------------- Forwarded message: From: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Reply-to: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) To: Vega011@aol.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: 97-11-03 23:24:26 EST On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 Vega011@aol.com wrote: > I have successfully created the installation boot disk image. > I am using this to format my computer. > Everything seems to go well: I am able to configure my kernal, I then select > 'Novice' installation, I select 'Use Entire Disk' in the partition editor, I > select 'Standard' MBR, I select 'Auto Defaults for all!' in the disklabel > editor, I select 'All' distributions, I select 'Floppy' installation media (I > have no CDROM), then confirm requests. > Partitioning seems to go fine. > I then get a message requesting 'Please insert floppy in floppy drive unit > A'. > I then insert my floppy with the files bin.aa, bin.ab, bin.ac, bin.ad and > bin.ae on them, and hit enter. You need to have bin.inf on this disk too. And the files must be in a bin\ directory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major --=_ORCL_17011067_0_0--