From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 12:23:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23131 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23107 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id av29296; 28 Jun 96 20:12 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa03439; 28 Jun 96 19:58 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA01591; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:36:00 GMT Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:36:00 GMT Message-Id: <199606281736.RAA01591@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: chiew@ibm.net CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <31D3A5DD.6CCA@ibm.net> (message from Ian Chiew on Fri, 28 Jun 1996 19:29:01 +1000) Subject: Re: BSD installation floppy images Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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