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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!news From: "Kalman Technologies Inc." <kalman@mindlink.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Floppy install Date: 24 Jan 1995 01:20:18 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3g1kki$si6@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: line16.nwm.mindlink.net I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.0 using a floppy only install. I have boot144 and cpio. These appeared to work fine since I'm booting up into the "install" mode. I have bininst.** on a number of different floppies when I select install the mandatory files (binist) using DOS floppies I stick my first floppy and the drive spins endlessly. When I break the install by pulling out the disk and breaking the installation and drop to the shell I can see the files in the \usr\tmp directory. One solution would be to copy the files from "a:" to \usr\tmp manually but I can't figure how to do this in Unix because I'm a newbie. Does anyone have some advice? Or point me to the relevant instructions? Thanks gregc@kalman.mlnet.com