From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 15:17:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16623 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 15:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16618 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 15:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nasaxp.rto.dec.com by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA02875; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 15:10:53 -0700 Received: from abs_42.rto.dec.com by nasaxp.rto.dec.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/13Oct95-0512PM-jmh) id AA20166; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:10:50 +0200 Message-Id: <3217B113.794BDF32@rto.dec.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:10:59 +0000 From: Rob Urban X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960612-SNAP i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing from floppies... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello People (whoever you are), Thanks for the wonderful support you gave me when I was trying to install from floppy and it wasn't working. Using your tips, I wasn't able to get it running and had to go to a lot more trouble to get FreeBSD running. Namely because I only got one tip, and it was wrong. I followed the instructions to in INSTALL.TXT to the _letter_, but they are wrong. I asked which of the files in the install directories must be present on the floppies. The single answer said "only the foo.aa, foo.ab, foo.ac, etc" ones. The answer is that the foo.inf file MUST be on the first floppy where 'foo' in introduced (and maybe on all floppies, but I only tried on floppy with 'bin') This should have occurred to me I suppose, because foo.inf is a 8.3 compatible name, whereas foo.mtree isn't, and this should have tipped me off. Oh well. So thanks again for the support. How about fixing the docs???? (960801 is the same) Rob Urban, wildly enthusiastic about having FreeBSD running on a laptop, pretty bummed about lack of response to one_easy_question.