From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 19:55:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA00844 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from corinne.mac.edu (qmailr@corinne.mac.edu [192.217.73.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA00828 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 875 invoked by uid 1020); 14 Jan 1997 03:56:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:56:48 -0600 (CST) From: ds To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.6 floppy installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear FreeBSD Hackers, I have enjoyed your wonderous OS on my computer for a long time. I however have recently received a laptop running win95, seeing as though the modem is pathedically slow, I am thinking of a floppy installation. I have downloaded the series needed, but for some reason I cannot get the FreeBSD installation program to recognize bin.?? files on a disk. I have tryed putting the bin.inf file on the first disk in the install series, which didnt work. Could you please explain to me how to correctly construct FreeBSD installation disks? You guys really need to update your FreeBSD handbook as you change your OS. Ok, thanks Ben.