Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:20:00 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble Message-ID: <019f01c089bb$8a82ee20$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <000a01c089ba$11724e00$3b26fea9@ian>
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I had that problem too ..... its been a while since I installed from floppies but I'm certain the problem was to do with the official explanation thats not as explicit as many newbies require. Did you created a "bin" directory on each of the floppies before copying the files there ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:08 PM Subject: Floppy installation trouble > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca> > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:33 PM > Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble > > > Thank you for the quick response. However, I suppose I mislead you as to > my problem. > > I have the boot floppies (kern.flp, mfsboot.flp) and they work fine, > getting the installation to run. But its the actual bin distribution files > that I can't get the computer to find. The documentation says that they are > to be installed either through FTP (which I can't do quickly with this > machine), or by copying them to the hard disk(not possible) or by filling > floppies with all the files. Unfortunately I have to use floppies, but the > installation program reads, > > > > "Unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0. > > > > Do you want to try to retrieve it again?" > > > > I have all the files from the /bin directory of the FTP site and I have > the .inf file on the first disk as is prescibed. > > Is there anything else I might have missed. > > > > Thank you again for your time. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > To: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca>; > > <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 1:05 AM > > Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble > > > > > > > > > > Hi, try reading the instructions at: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES > > > again. The way to make the boot flopies is to download and write the > > > images to a floppy, you don't copy the files to a floppy. > > > The images are exactly what the floppy should have on them, no > > > filesytem, formatting etc. > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > On Saturday January 27, 2001 22:54, Ian Cunningham wrote: > > > > > > > > I was attempting to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a 486 IBM ps note laptop > > > > with floppy disks. I got to the place where you put in the first > > > > floppy and the installation program can't find the necessary files. > > > > > > > > I have formatted all the disks as recomended, copied the .inf file to > > > > the first disk, and can't seem to get it to recognize the disk. > > > > > > > > Any information regarding this would be greatly appreciated. Thank > > > > you for your time. > > > > > > > > Ian Cunningham > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > Content-Description: > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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