From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 3 19:22:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA27347 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net ([204.191.205.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA27340 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00325; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 18:57:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 18:57:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net To: Tom Olenio cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Install Question In-Reply-To: <3434F3AC.48B4@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Tom Olenio wrote: > Hello Questions, > > I am going to do a floppy install of release 2.1.7.1 (no network, no > CDROM) and have a question as to what I need. > > The instructions say to copy to disk all the files in the "bin (binary > distribution) directory". > > My question is do they mean all the files in all the folders of release > /2.1.7.1/, or all the files in the subdirectory /2.1.7.1/bin/? > > Right now I have all the /2.1.7.1/bin/ files and a boot disk imaged. In > re-reading everything I wonder if I have only copied a small amount of > all the files I will need. > > It is my understanding that this type of install (floppies) is my only > option. The software is going to be loaded on a 386, 20Hz, SX, that has > 720mg hard drive, 5 1/4" & 3 1/2" floppy drives, and external modem, > with DOS and Telix installed. Are there install options I am unaware of > to complete this install on this machine? (I obviously have access to > the internet) You also have the option of installing from c:\freebsd\bin and select Install From a dos partition option. This is a lot faster. (See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html 2.2.3. Before installing from a MS-DOS partition) You will probably want to include in an install: /doc/* (Handbook, FAQ, and papers) /manpages/* (manual pages) /src/ssys.* (kernel sources) Hope this helped. -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ...." British Columbia *BSD User Directory ==> http://www.cynic.net