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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!bofh.dot!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!bofh.dot!INnl.net!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Where does one find version 2.0.5? Date: 20 May 1996 21:50:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4nqpg3$6gn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nl5ct$q8i@access1.digex.net> <4nn60e$1ii@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4npo93$8cf@access1.digex.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis) wrote: > >You should also be able to pick the ``boot4.flp'' image from a newer > >SNAPshot, and install your 2.1R with it. I'd at least give it a try. > > Thanks. This almost worked. :-) I ftp'd a copy of this (from the > 2.2-960501-SNAP dist.) and had a few problems. Firstly, after > successfully booting, I got lots of messages about help files not > being on the boot floppy. Secondly, after setting up the > partitioning, etc., I was unable to make a selection from the menu > where one chooses the type of installation, such as some binaries, all > of the source code, etc. Entering the number for an item, or using > the arrow keys to highlight a selection, in this menu didn't result in > anything actually being selected. This looks like your floppy is broken in some way. All of this does only need the files from the boot floppy itself, nothing else, so it's irrelevant whether you're going to install a 2.2-SNAP, or a 2.1R with the floppy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)