Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:05:48 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppy installation trouble Message-ID: <0101280205480N.25766@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c088de$08d88a20$1518a58e@ian> References: <000a01c088de$08d88a20$1518a58e@ian>
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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
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