From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 23: 8:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4C337B698 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by changeofhabit.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.2r) with SMTP id CAA24799; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:08:25 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: "Ian Cunningham" , Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:05:48 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: <000a01c088de$08d88a20$1518a58e@ian> In-Reply-To: <000a01c088de$08d88a20$1518a58e@ian> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0101280205480N.25766@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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