Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:57:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "J.R.S. II" <jrs@Mcs.Net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407125615.26799F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980406220013.5336A-100000@Venus.mcs.net>
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, J.R.S. II wrote: > > I'm would like to do a floppy install on an old 486 laptop. I checked the > website and could not find any information on making the istallation > disks. Could someone please point me in the right direction. I'm > installing on an IBM Thinkpad without the freebsd cd-rom. Can I make > install floppies from the ftp site?? Sure. This should be explained in either INSTALL.TXT, LAYOUT.TXT, or the Handbook. Basically you copy as many of the bin.* files you can fit onto a floppy in the subdirectory bin\. Copy bin.inf to the first disk. Then select floppy install and feed the disks as prompted. The thing most people miss is putting bin.inf on and to put all the files in the subdirectory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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