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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!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 00:36:55 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 29 Message-ID: <36adr7$oa8@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <363siu$or2@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu 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). Dimitrios