Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:36:00 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: chiew@ibm.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD installation floppy images Message-ID: <199606281736.RAA01591@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <31D3A5DD.6CCA@ibm.net> (message from Ian Chiew on Fri, 28 Jun 1996 19:29:01 %2B1000)
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> Are all of the BSD installation floppies available at ftp.freebsd.org? I
> can't find them!
Yes, they're under the 'dists' directory - each distribution has been
cunningly split up into 240kB chunks, so you can fit 5 on a 1.2M
floppy and 6 on a 1.44M floppy. The only tricky thing is that the
install program will expect them to be in the relevant directory, in
alphabetical order, so each floppy should look something like
A:\bin\bin.aa
bin.ab
bin.ac
bin.ad
bin.ae
bin.af
and not
A:bin.ce
bin.ab
bin.ba
bin.yz
> I don't have the CDROM and want to do a completely
> floppy based installation.
It might be easier to use the install program's FTP-on-demand
facility, or to put the files on a DOS hard disk, if either of these
are possible for you. (Though I installed 2.1.0 from floppies when it
was released, as my employer had a T1 and it wasn't practical to take
my computer in to work...)
--
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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