From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 18:04:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA17780 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17775 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net [203.108.7.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA23268 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oznet16.ozemail.com.au (oznet16.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.109]) by server3.syd.mail.ozemail.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA06954 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:03:27 +1000 (EST) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by oznet16.ozemail.com.au (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA22261 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:03:26 +1000 (EST) Received: from Default (slmel3p36.ozemail.com.au [203.15.163.52]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA24050 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:03:24 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199608250103.LAA24050@oznet02.ozemail.com.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Richard Lyon" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 10:52:01 +0000 Subject: 2.1.5 - Floppy Installation Reply-to: rlyon@ozemail.com.au Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I recently decided to upgrade to 2.1.5. For various reasons I need to do a floppy install. With previous versions this has been no big drama. For version 2.1.5 the required floppy layouts is very strange. For example: bin.inf must be placed on the first bin distribution disk info.inf must be placed on the last bin distribution disk manpages.inf must be placed on the info distribution disk. I don't want to mix distributions, so I have been extracting each manually. I would prefer to be able to do it in one hit. Has anyone managed to do a floppy install and what disk layouts did they use? I seem to remember some discussion on this matter previously, but I can't seem to find the relevant mail messages in the archive. Regards Richard ...