From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 16:17:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E303E14D0F for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13146; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:41:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdl13144; Mon Sep 20 09:41:31 1999 Message-ID: <00c301bf0348$0b6106e0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Kamesh Kompella" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Installation problems with floppy Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:10:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had same problem ..... at the time I figured I must be doing something wrong as far as putting the files on the floppies in whatever directory the handbook says, eventually gave up on the floppy install bit and got a CD to install from ..... thats always worked well. The instructions given in the Handbook for making the floppies must be misleading somehow .. I haven't looked in Greg Leahy's book yet for info on making floppies, possibly it will be more explicit.than the Handbook . > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message