From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 08:25:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA09620 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 08:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09615 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 08:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id co26908; 21 Jul 96 16:18 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa28200; 21 Jul 96 15:24 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA00908; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:14:12 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199607211314.NAA00908@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: floppy install of 2.2-960612-SNAP To: "Robert L. Urban" Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:14:11 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9607210315.AA07192@nasaxp.rto.dec.com> from "Robert L. Urban" at Jul 21, 96 05:15:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The INSTALL.TXT is not very clear _what_ needs to be on the floppies > and how it needs to be organized. I packed as much as I could onto > each floppy (as the guide recommends) such that files from more that > on distribution were mixed on one floppy, for example writing the last > 4 bin chunks and the first 3 des, and so on. Is this a problem? It doesn't really matter, so long as all the files are there, in order, and each is in the appropriate directory on the floppy. eg the first bin floppy should have bin/bin.aa bin/bin.ab ... and a mixed bin/des floppy should have bin/bin.xy bin/bin.xz des/des.aa ... > also, on the alternate virtual terminal, I saw debug messages > referring to 'mumble.inf'. I did _not_ copy these onto the floppies, > as they were not mentioned in INSTALL.TXT. Hmm, don't know about those. Presumably they mark the start/end of each distribution? In any case, I'd expect them to be plain text files, so it shouldn't be too hard to have a look inside them and see what's going on.