From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Oct 10 05:24:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01708 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 05:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01695 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 05:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id OAA22790; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:23:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:23:58 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Krazy Bastard Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question References: <361E8A76.D7E15DFB@telusplanet.net> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 10 Oct 1998 14:23:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: Krazy Bastard's message of "Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:13:11 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA01699 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Krazy Bastard writes: > I don't understand the floppy install help pages. I wish to download and > install to/from floppy, 1.44 disk. Do I just download the files in any > order? Which directory do I start from? You've got to be kidding. I don't have a 2.2.7 CD handy, but a full floppy install of 2.2.6 requires 55 floppies (including the boot floppy), *all* of which must be 100% error-free. You'd be better off buying a cheap null-modem or laplink cable and installing over SLIP/PLIP from another Unix box. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message