From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 23:21:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10710 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:21:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10705 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00758; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:21:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:21:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Yungui G. Ding" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on install In-Reply-To: <199610290053.SAA12279@psycfrnd.interaccess.com> 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 Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Yungui G. Ding wrote: > I tried to install from floppy. I got the bootflp to work and all > the way to "select media". I selected Floppy and insert the > disk which has files > a:\bin\bin.aa, bin.ab, ... > and hit return. It complained "could not find distribution > "bin". What does the alt-F2 console report? don't forget to put bin.info in there too! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major