From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 10: 6:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEC414E56 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2202.bossig.com [208.26.242.202]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28028; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F63B9B.725B25AF@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 10:06:35 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oswap@cs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD References: <30f0dad3.2526eb2f@cs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oswap@cs.com wrote: > > I have downloaded the whole bin folder. I need to put it on floppies. Can you > please tell me which ones go on what disks? Is there a special way to put > them on? They all do. You need to read section "2.2.2. Before installing from Floppy " on the web page http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x619.html The install script concatenates the bin.aa to bin.ec files into one large compressed tar and you can't leave one out. They have to be added in order and aren't random choices. You can add 5 bin files to a 1.44MB floppy and that means 17 of them. Once you finish installing the system, then you have to worry about adding any applications you want to use in order to turn your hardware into a computer. Doing "ls", "cd", and etc. all day long is not very interesting. Does the computer you are starting to install FreeBSD on have access to a modem or a network because there is a lot of material that you need once you have finished the basic install. This all comes on the CDROM's, which is the reason they are a much better point to start from. Kent > > Thank You, > Robert Foster > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message