From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:55:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01191 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:56 -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 PAA06838 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:33:01 -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 WAA22550; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:02:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:02:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Brady K. Adams" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to install FreeBSD from floppies In-Reply-To: <199801091700.JAA25557@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 9 Jan 1998, Brady K. Adams wrote: > 1) Thank you for the help. Actually, after some trial-and-error last night > I > was able to get the floppy installation to work. The problem that I was > having was that I did not have the correct directory structure on the > installation floppy. I had originally had the following on the initial > disk: Aah! Congrats! > > a:\bin\bin.inf > a:\bin\bin.aa > a:\bin\bin.ab > a:\bin\bin.ac > a:\bin\bin.ad > > however, the installation only worked with the following directory structure > on the initial disk: > > a:\freebsd\bin\bin.inf > a:\freebsd\bin\bin.aa > a:\freebsd\bin\bin.ab > a:\freebsd\bin\bin.ac > a:\freebsd\bin\bin.ad Hm, will have to keep that in mind. That's a level deeper than before. :-/ > 2) I now have another problem in that once the installation of the bin > packages has completed, the installation procedure stops and then says that > other installation components have not been installed (doc, compat1x, games, > ports, etc.). Again, I am trying to do a full installation. Any ideas > here? Last I remember, you have to place the .inf file for the next distribution on the last disk of the previous distribution. You might be able to bend that by putting all the .inf files on one disk so they get copied at once. The floppy install procedure is twisted. :-( Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major