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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:30:50 -0700
To: matt quelch <mattq@techies.co.uk>
From: "John W. Rasins" <jrasins@interramp.com>
Subject: Re: Ref: Installing freebsd
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At 06:03 PM 9/16/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Install from floppies...!!
>
>Upon running the installation booting from boot4.flp image, all runs
>through ok except when i am prompted for the next disk.
>The next disk has a dir \bin with bin.aa, bin.ab, bin.ac, bin.ad, bin.ae
>(only)
>
>An error is returned saying bin distribution not found.
>Can't find a kernel image to link to on root file system..!
>
>Have i missed some files off the second or first disk ?

Yes, the new 2.1.5R floppy installation requires the .inf file to be on the
first diskette in the distribution directory.  So, for bin, and in the /bin
directory on the first diskette, you will need bin.aa - bin.ae and bin.inf.
This goes for all of the other distributions.

John

>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks
>Matt