From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 17:38:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA24593 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:38:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from wakko.gil.net (keithl@wakko.gil.net [207.100.79.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA24581 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:38:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keithl@localhost) by wakko.gil.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA19566; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:38:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:38:27 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard To: Doug White cc: ds , 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------