Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:54:35 -0600 From: "Ian Cunningham" <ian.cunningham@sk.sympatico.ca> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Floppy installation trouble Message-ID: <000a01c088de$08d88a20$1518a58e@ian>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C088AB.BD192220 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was attempting to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a 486 IBM ps note laptop with = floppy disks. I got to the place where you put in the first floppy and = the installation program can't find the necessary files.=20 I have formatted all the disks as recomended, copied the .inf file to = the first disk, and can't seem to get it to recognize the disk.=20 Any information regarding this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you = for your time. Ian Cunningham ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C088AB.BD192220 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I was attempting to install FreeBSD 4.2 = on a 486=20 IBM ps note laptop with floppy disks. I got to the place where you = put in=20 the first floppy and the installation program can't find the necessary = files.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have formatted all the disks as = recomended,=20 copied the .inf file to the first disk, and can't seem to get it to = recognize=20 the disk. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Any information regarding this would be = greatly=20 appreciated. Thank you for your time.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ian = Cunningham</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C088AB.BD192220-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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