From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 12:02:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA14863 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14850 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:02:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA00401; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:01:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:01:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Shaun Schwarten cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html In-Reply-To: <199702111119.FAA24938@winc0.win.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Shaun Schwarten wrote: > Hi my name is Shaun Schwarten. > > I have been having problems installing FreeBSD on my system and I can't > find my answer in the FAQ list. > > I followed the installation guide for floppy installation to the tee. > > I made the dir BIN on my floppies and copyied the bin files onto them. > > I made it all the way through the installation till it asked me to insert > the floppy then all ended there with an error message saying it couldn't > find the bin files, maybe because it wasn't on the media i chose. You forgot bin.inf. Put it on the first disk in bin/ and you should be happy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major