Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:10:59 +0000 From: Rob Urban <urban@rto.dec.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing from floppies... Message-ID: <3217B113.794BDF32@rto.dec.com>
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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.
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