Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:56:28 -0500 From: Richard Arnold <RichardA@ibm.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing freebsd Message-ID: <32ADA44C.6CFB@ibm.net>
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Hello...
I have been having the hardest time trying to get freebsd to install.
Here is what I have tried to do:
I want to install freebsd to my laptop and so I downloaded all the
necessary files to create the floppies. (obviously time consuming) I get
the boot floppy to the installation menu just fine... configure
everything as far as hardware just fine.. but when I go to choose the
method of installation and choose floppy disk... it goes to the floppy
drive and says: /bin /manpages /dict... ect... not found on disk.
I have chosen the user installation setting and have places the
appropriate files within a /bin directory on the floppy disk just like
the install instructions say to. I have gone over the installation
instructions again and again.. and can't see what I am doing wrong.
Everything I am doing seems to be the right thing... but It still cant
find whatever files it is searching for. I didnt even try other
directories on the floppy disk (like /manpages) assuming that if it cant
find the /bin directory... then it wont find any other.
Help! I really want to learn more about UNIX and although I have linux,
I would much rather install freebsd
Question: I have a backpack cdrom drive that works off of the parallel
port of my laptop. They dont have drivers for unix so I assumed that a
floppy disk install was the way to go. Ftp install is very complicated
and I cant seem to get that to work either... Anyway... please help.
Thanx.
--
Richard Arnold
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