From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 11:17:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01080 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:17:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01048 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26287; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:17:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:17:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: James cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199802091753.LAA04825@mailhost.cyberramp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, James wrote: > okay, I've made a boot disk using fdimage and boot.flp; I've downloaded > everything from /src and /bin, and put them all on floppy disks, 39 to be > exact. Now, I have a question....HOW DO I INSTALL FREEBSD? > I tried to...I set up everything. I chose floppy install....then it wrote > to my MBR, and asked me to insert a disk...so I put in the first disk of > the /bin directory....and NOTHING happened. It kept taking me thru the same > thing, only to get the same results. > What am I supposed to do? Make sure that: 1. you put the dists in a subdirectory on the floppy, ie bin\bin.aa, bin\bin.bb... 2. Put bin.inf in the first disk in \bin\. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message