Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:39:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Justin M. Seger" <jseger@ts1.scds.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960219213657.17862C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199602200247.VAA00891@ts1.scds.com>
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On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Justin M. Seger wrote: > If I am going to install FreeBSD using floppies, how can I create these myself? > I've got the entire tree from ftp.cdrom.com for FreeBSD, and have installed > FreeBSD multiple times by taking the files and putting them on disks, then > creating a install directory on my new file system on the destination system, > and then copying the files from floppies into that directory and telling the > FreeBSD installer to get its installation files there. I know there is a > install from floppies option, and I want to know how I can create floppies to > use with this. You know by now that the dists come as *.aa, *.ab, and so on. To install from floppy, use msdos-formatted floppies and cram as many of the individual files on each floppy as possible, keeping distributions separated. (ie: all the bin.* files on one set, games.* on another.) Select the floppy install option from sysinstall and insert disks when prompted. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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