Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: ds <ds@corinne.mac.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 floppy installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970114163224.9790D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970113215014.846A-100000@corinne.mac.edu>
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, ds wrote: > 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. The floppy install has been a total farce. ;( But here's how you do it: 1. put all files in bin/ for the bin distribution, manpages/, etc. on the floppy. 2. Put bin.inf on the first disk. Put the .inf file for the NEXT distribution on the LAST disk of the previous distribution. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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