From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 09:55:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA17908 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA17901 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:55:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA116019 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:55:08 GMT Received: from slip166-72-110-228.va.us.ibm.net(166.72.110.228) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id sma9hEDmb; Tue Dec 10 17:54:57 1996 Message-ID: <32ADA44C.6CFB@ibm.net> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:56:28 -0500 From: Richard Arnold Reply-To: RichardA@ibm.net Organization: INTERNET 2 U X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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