From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 10:26:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA08407 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from top.MTS.Net (top.mts.net [205.200.16.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA08379 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (flfnas01-p01.mts.net [205.200.31.136]) by top.MTS.Net (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id MAA23380; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:24:49 -0500 Message-ID: <324835A2.2948@mb.sympatico.ca> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:25:22 -0700 From: "K.C. Komosky" Organization: Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting, Flin Flon, MB X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E-SYMPA (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation from DOS partition References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, We are the knights who say Ni! wrote: > > > I first tried to install the software from floppy disks by > > downloading all the bin files via FTP, where I had made all the floppies > > (15, including the boot floppy) and put the files on them in the right > > order... and it didn't work. > > That's not unusual, unfortunately the floppy install instructions are less > than accurate. > Could you clarify this please? Since I've been unable to install FreeBSD from my DOS partition, even with your help, I'm ging to have to try a disk install. However, I've seen you make statements similar to the above one before. So what is missing and/or inaccurate in the instructions for floppy install? K.C. Komosky