From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 15:38:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bartman.ic.sunysb.edu (bartman.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F276153EE for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkamesh@ic.sunysb.edu) Received: from sparky.ic.sunysb.edu (kkamesh@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.1.3]) by bartman.ic.sunysb.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA03763; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:37:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (kkamesh@localhost) by sparky.ic.sunysb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA16300; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:37:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sparky.ic.sunysb.edu: kkamesh owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:37:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Kamesh Kompella X-Sender: kkamesh@sparky To: freebsdquestions Subject: Installation problems with floppy In-Reply-To: <004601bf02df$5c3fa260$551d5bcf@steve> 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 I was trying to load freebsd on my computer using the floppies. After partitioning the disk and setting up directories (namely /, /var etc) , I chose Novice/Minimum Installation. At this point, I was asked to remove the boot floppy and insert the floppy (which I presume is the floppy containing bin files). I removed the boot floppy and put in the floppy containing the first few bin files. Now, at this point, I was told that a holographic shell is being started and that the installation is complete *with some errors*. Now, my question is: why was I not prompted for the remaining floppies containing bin files (there are roughly 13 such floppies!)? How can this situation be rectified? I made sure that bin.info is in the first floppy. Also all the files were placed in a directory named bin on their respective floppies. Please note that my machine is completely empty (read no OS). Thank in advance. Kamesh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message