From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Feb 21 10:00:52 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA09609
          for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:00:52 -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 KAA09600
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:00:48 -0800 (PST)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00967; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:00:39 -0800 (PST)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:00:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
X-Sender: dwhite@localhost
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: JB LaRue <JB.LaRue@mila-inc.com>
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Floppy installation
In-Reply-To: <199702201757.JAA24554@who.cdrom.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970221095908.904J-100000@localhost>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, JB LaRue wrote:

> Glad to see 2.1.7 is ready! Thanks alot. I have been waiting to 
> switch from Red Hat to Free BSD. One question: I'm looking for the 
> README.TXT for performing a Floppy installation and then FTP'ing the 
> rest of the files down. Could you help?

The docs should be laying around on the top level of the 2.1.7 tree, at
ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE.  

Floppy install is nasty, unless Jordan fixed it :)  The big key is put
bin.inf on the first disk, and the .inf file for the next distribution (in
order listed in the menus) on the last floppy of the previous
distribution.  Someone posted the magic incantation last year, it may be
in the mail archives.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major