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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.nntp.acc.ca!news.ican.net!ptjm From: ptjm@ican.net (Patrick TJ McPhee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I MUST have a Floppy (yech) FreeBSD install --- anyone ever done one? Date: 18 Jul 1997 01:01:01 GMT Organization: Crampton Vinegar Works Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5qmf8d$o1k$1@readme.ican.net> References: <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-031.toronto-09.ican.net Summary: I have, I don't recommend it Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44589 In article <5qilj2$j07@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>, User Rdkeys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu> wrote: % 4. HAS ANYONE EVER done a floppy install of FreeBSD????? I did a floppy install of 2.1.0. I might also have done one of 1.0 quite a few years ago, although I couldn't say for certain. I certainly wouldn't think of this as the old-fashioned way, just a generally bad way. I read somewhere (maybe the README file?) that the floppy install can have problems with pre-formatted floppies. You might want to try reformatting all the floppies. You might also want to try partitioning your disk, using 50M as a FAT partition for the install, and then reformat that partition after you're done, so you have someplace to do your writing. -- Patrick TJ McPhee East York Canada ptjm@ican.net