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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.0 from Floppies
Date: 22 Jun 1995 12:26:30 +0200
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<bgnet.bgsu.edu@bgnet.bgsu.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD on a small laptop and am having problems.
>I make the Boot and CPIO floppies from the 2.0 CD Rom and they install, I
>get to the point that I'm about to load the bindist files and the install
>program cannot find the files on the mounted floppies.
I think installing from floppies wasn't really supported in 2.0R.
Either get 2.0.5R, or install via a DOS partition if you can, or use
``UFS installation''. The latter will provide you with a shell
intented to mount the UFS partition, so you can copy the contents of
your floppies to a scratch directory on the BSD partition, and
continue as if the files would always have been on the disk.
Either way, you need quite a bit of scratch space to hold the
distribution files.
Do not choose ``/tmp'' as your scratch dir, or the files will be lost
once you're rebooting into multi-user!
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)