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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:16:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        APRIM@mv3900.svl.photronics.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good news on Installation Error
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920191542.224L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <960920095130.2080b8e7@mv3900.svl.photronics.com>

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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 APRIM@mv3900.svl.photronics.com wrote:

> We gave up on installing from DOS Partition and tried from floppies
> which worked ok.  Since I have Windows 95 installed, probably had
> something to do with it "per instructor" (never tried FreeBSD 
> installation With W.95 installed).  
> 
> Any way, we installed UNIX from Floppies (/BIN), but couldn't install
> MANPAGES due to bad floppies or missing continues programs.

The floppy install is not well documented.  You have to put the *.inf file
for the next distribution on the previous floppy set, ie put the
manpages.inf file on the last bin disk.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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