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You need the bin.inf file on the first diskette, in the /bin dir with the .aa .ab 
etc... files. If you wish to install any other distributions at the same time then 
put the .inf in a directory for that distribution, eg: for the manpages put man.inf 
in the /manpages dir.

Hope this helps.

Andrew Perry
andrew@shoal.net.au

Jim wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to do a fairly minimal install of FreeBSD onto a 486-33Mhz
> with a 212Meg disk.  Told the novice install procedure to use the whole
> disk for BSD.  Used 3.5" floppies with MS-DOS formatting...reformatted when
> they won't work.  Tried placing the '/bin' files in their own subdirectory
> on the floppies, then in \FREEBSD\BIN and am still getting, after the
> 'Please insert floppy for floppy drive unit A' and doing so, the message
> Message: Couldn't extract the following distributions.  This may be because
> they were not available on the installation media you've chosen:
> 
> bin
> 
> Its getting frustrating...probably something very simple....but....HELP !
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim Lloyd
> 541-776-7606
> jalloyd@teleport.com
> 
> ps...can FreeBSD be placed on a system that already has Win95 AND Winnt 4.0
> workstation?