From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 18:52:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22295 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 18:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mtigwc05.worldnet.att.net (mtigwc05.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22285 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 18:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcr10@worldnet.att.net) Received: from dcr ([12.64.160.202]) by mtigwc05.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with ESMTP id AAA3280 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 01:51:30 +0000 Reply-To: From: "Diana Roman" To: Subject: Floppy Disk Install Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 18:51:09 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19980412015129.AAA3280@dcr> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there. I'm trying to install from a set of floppies I made of the bin directory. When I clicked on the files 'checksum.md5', 'install.sh', and 'bin.mtree', (at ftp://www.freebsd.org) they opened up in the browser directly, as text. So I chose 'save as file...' from the File menu in Internet Explorer, and saved them as text files, renamed them with the proper extensions... Is this correct? Also, I can't open bin.au - it gives me an error message saying that the sound file can't be played.... Now, I get through the installation process up to the Media menu and select 'install from floppies', at which point it prompts me to insert a floppy in a:. So I insert the floppy that contains checksum.md5 and bin.aa through bin.af, hit return, and get the following.... Message: Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you've chosen. bin doc manpages problibs dict info ports 100% What do I do??? : ( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message