From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 04:30:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA28381 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:30:45 -0800 Received: from elvis.tamu.edu (ELVIS.TAMU.EDU [128.194.22.119]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA28375 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:30:43 -0800 Received: by elvis.tamu.edu via SMTP (931110.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO.allans.kludges) for questions@freebsd.org id AA02924; Wed, 15 Mar 95 06:31:13 -0600 Message-Id: <9503151231.AA02924@elvis.tamu.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problem with cdrom.com freebsd 2.0 CD, and how to install from floppies? From: nefud@tamu.edu (Allan Bailey) Reply-To: nefud@tamu.edu X-Office: 013D Teague X-Office-Phone: 409.845.6905 X-Organization: TAMU CIS Operating Systems Group, Unix X-Url: http://elvis.tamu.edu/ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 06:31:13 -0600 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Sony 31a cdrom, so I need to install from floppies. How do I create the necessary floppies from teh bindist and srcdist files? if at all possible. I can't find anything in the FAQs or Doc files about this. But maybe I'm just missing something. Any pointers would be much appreciated. Problem: the boot floppy fails during installation. Everytime it tries to create the harddisk boot partition from the boot floppy it fails. I.e., when I boot from the hard disk it can't find 'init', and then of course reboots. During the install of the installation boot partition it gives an error, which I can't completely see, about a hard error on the floppy. I've switched floppies, and despite using different disks (i.e., it's not a hard error on the floppies it seems), it still gives the same error. Clues? -- Allan Bailey, allan@elvis.tamu.edu | "Freedom is not free." _O_ Senlima Diverseco je Senlimaj Kombinajxoj.| nefud@tamu.edu | KC5KSF | GCS w+ v-/+ C++++ U@$ P+++ L++ E++ N++ po--- Y++ b++