From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 17:58:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29254 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29233 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA25537; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:58:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:58:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Pixel King cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy/ide hard drive install difficulties In-Reply-To: <19980627013830.14244.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Pixel King wrote: > hello, > > i go through the install, setting up the partition, and then i go to > select my distribution. since i got it off the net, i only have the > files in the Bin directory, so i go to custom install, and select only > the bin. > > then it prompts me to insert the first floppy. i do, and then it tells > me it can't find the files from 'bin'. i've formatted this floppy, and > then (as per the directions) created a dir. called 'bin' and copied > bin.aa through bin.ae onto the floppy in the subdir 'bin'. Did you put `bin.inf' on it? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message