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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!dim From: dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help with FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 installation Date: 28 Sep 1994 00:51:33 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 49 Message-ID: <36aeml$okj@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <363siu$or2@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <36adr7$oa8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <36adr7$oa8@agate.berkeley.edu>, D. Gerasimatos <dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In article <363siu$or2@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, >Andrej Gabara <gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE> wrote: >> >>Hi, I've been installing FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 on my PC, got up to the >>"Congratulations..." message. Then I set the default installation directory >>with set_tmp_dir to /usr/distrib, and typed the command load_fd to load the >>binary (bin_tgz.??) distribution, which I copied on 11 disks. >>This is what I got: >> >># load_fd >>Read from which drive [c] ? A >>Insert floppy in drive A:, then press RETURN to copy files... >>exec: /sbin/mount_pcfs /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy >>mount: invalid argument >> > >When I tried to install off of floppy, I had the exact same problem. My >solution was to use the tar utility to untar floppies I made on UNIX >machines at work. After I had the bin_dist, I downloaded the rest with >kermit (which I also tarred onto hard disk). > Oh, and I should note that I *did* format the floppies using "mkdfs" on a Sun running SunOS. The other poster said that there might be a problem using floppies not formatted under DOS. I wish I had known that before! :) Anyhow, tar worked great! Dimitrios