From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 19:57:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from toshiro.sk.sympatico.ca (toshiro.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.5.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8791137B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ian (regnsk01d05010121.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.24.21]) by toshiro.sk.sympatico.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA992226 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:57:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000a01c088de$08d88a20$1518a58e@ian> From: "Ian Cunningham" To: Subject: Floppy installation trouble Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:54:35 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C088AB.BD192220" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C088AB.BD192220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 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.=20 Any information regarding this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you = for your time. Ian Cunningham ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C088AB.BD192220 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I was attempting to install FreeBSD 4.2 = on a 486=20 IBM ps note laptop with floppy disks. I got to the place where you = put in=20 the first floppy and the installation program can't find the necessary = files.=20

I have formatted all the disks as = recomended,=20 copied the .inf file to the first disk, and can't seem to get it to = recognize=20 the disk.

Any information regarding this would be = greatly=20 appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Ian = Cunningham

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