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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy Installation
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:38:45 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Kenny <kbranco@ma.ultranet.com>

Kenny wrote:
> At the mirror site: ftp5.FreeBSD.ORG in the
> directory /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/, there are 2 directories,
> commerce/ and X86312/ the files in these directories are not set up like
> the files that are in the main bin/ directory. How can I make floppy
> images from these 2 directories that will work during the install? The

Erm, uhm, you can't.  Those dists are "special" still and not aimed at
floppy users.  This is a shortcoming I hope to address fairly soon!
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project