From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 16:33:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA19613 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA19607 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA10384; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: ds cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 floppy installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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