From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 21:08:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA07054 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail0.sfc.keio.ac.jp (mail0.sfc.keio.ac.jp [133.27.4.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07033 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccs02.sfc.keio.ac.jp by mail0.sfc.keio.ac.jp (5.67+1.6W/2.7W) id AA25102; Thu, 13 Jun 96 13:08:38 +0900 Received: by ccs02.sfc.keio.ac.jp (5.67+1.6W/6.4J.6-sfc0) id AA27051; Thu, 13 Jun 96 13:08:36 +0900 Message-Id: <9606130408.AA27051@ccs02.sfc.keio.ac.jp> From: Takaaki Nomura To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Takaaki Nomura Subject: Re: 2.1-960606-SNAP floppy installation failed In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:47:26 JST" References: <9606111147.AA13831@ccs02.sfc.keio.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="ISO-2022-JP" Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:08:36 +0900 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I tried to install 2.1-960606-SNAP minimally from floppies. But I got >next message after inserting a floppy which contained bin/bin.a[a-f] and >couldn't extract bin.*. > >>Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may >>be bacause they were not available on the installation >>media you've chosen: >> >> bin: > > > I couldn't find floppies/root.flp in ftp.freebsd.org. Isn't root.flp >necessary in floppy installation ? > > Has anyone succeeded in floppy installation ? A friend of mine has succeeded in floppy installation. He put bin.inf in the floppy. I didn't notice the file. INSTALL.TXT doesn't mention that root.flp isn't necessary and that bin.inf is necessary. Please correct it in the next release. -- Takaaki Nomura Keio University, Japan