Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:38:27 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: ds <ds@corinne.mac.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 floppy installation Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970114203408.19340A-100000@wakko.gil.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970114163224.9790D-100000@localhost>
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Howdy Doug, That farce as you call it is the only way I could get FreeBSD on my laptop and except for not knowing the 'inf on the last disk' trick (guess I didn't RTFM ;) I managed and it is a wonderous thing indeed. BTW you can copy the manpages.?? to your harddrive and 'cat' them to a single tar file and then untar from the / directory if it fails [and it does] during the install (this is for everyone else, Doug.) Thanks for a great product and great help. On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > 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 > Keith keithl@gil.net ------------------------------------------------------ Character is what you are in the dark - John Warfin ------------------------------------------------------
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