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From: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Floppy installation trouble
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:08:09 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble


 Thank you for the quick response.  However, I suppose I mislead you as to
my problem.

 I have the boot floppies (kern.flp, mfsboot.flp) and they work fine,
getting the installation to run.  But its the actual bin distribution files
that I can't get the computer to find.  The documentation says that they are
to be installed either through FTP (which I can't do quickly with this
machine), or by copying them to the hard disk(not possible) or by filling
floppies with all the files.  Unfortunately I have to use floppies, but the
installation program reads,
>
> "Unable to  transfer the bin distribution from fd0.
>
> Do you want to try to retrieve it again?"
>
> I have all the files from the /bin directory of the FTP site and I have
the .inf file on the first disk as is prescibed.
> Is there anything else I might have missed.
>
> Thank you again for your time.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca>;
> <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble
>
>
> >
> > Hi, try reading the instructions at:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES
> > again.  The way to make the boot flopies is to download and write the
> > images to a floppy, you don't copy the files to a floppy.
> > The images are exactly what the floppy should have on them, no
> > filesytem, formatting etc.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Saturday January 27, 2001 22:54, Ian Cunningham wrote:
> >
> > > > I was attempting to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a 486 IBM ps note laptop
> > > with floppy disks.  I got to the place where you put in the first
> > > floppy and the installation program can't find the necessary files.
> > >
> > > I have formatted all the disks as recomended, copied the .inf file to
> > > the first disk, and can't seem to get it to recognize the disk.
> > >
> > > Any information regarding this would be greatly appreciated.  Thank
> > > you for your time.
> > >
> > > Ian Cunningham
> >
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