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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:07:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Ben Marsh <benjamin.marsh@jcu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: freeBSD instalation Problems?!
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Ben Marsh wrote:

> Can Somebody help me? I am trying to install from floppy but I can't seem
> to intstall the bin distribution!
> 
> I copied install.sh bin.mtree (which was truncated to bin.mtr) bin.inf
> which I dowloaded as text files from ftp.freebsd.org as well as bin.aa and
> bin.ab(downloaded as binary files) on to the first disk.  

You need to put the files in a bin\ directory on the disk.

A:\
   BIN\
       bin.inf
       bin.aa 
       .. etc ..

Sorry that this isn't better doucmented.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major