If you must install from floppy disks, either due to unsupported hardware or just because you enjoy doing things the hard way, you must first prepare some floppies for the install.
The first floppy you will need is ``floppies/root.flp'', which is somewhat special in that it is not a DOS filesystem floppy at all, but rather an ``image'' floppy (it is actually a gzip'd cpio file). You can use the rawrite.exe program to do this under DOS, or dd to do it on a UNIX Workstation. See the beginning of this guide for examples. of how to create the boot floppy. Once this floppy is made, go on to make the distribution set floppies:
You will need, at minimum, as many 1.44MB or 1.2MB floppies as it takes to hold all files in the bin (binary distribution) directory. These floppies must be formatted using MS-DOS, using the FORMAT command in MS-DOS or the File Manager format command in Microsoft Windows(tm). Do not trust Factory Preformatted floppies. Format them again yourself, just to make sure.
Many problems reported by our users in the past have resulted from the use of improperly formatted media, so we simply take special care to mention it here!
After you have DOS formatted the floppies, you will need to copy the files onto them. The distribution files are split into chunks conveniently sized so that 5 of them will fit on a conventional 1.44MB floppy. Go through all your floppies, packing as many files as will fit on each one, until you have got all the distributions you want packed up in this fashion. Each distribution should go into a subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.: a:\bin\bin.aa, a:\bin\bin.ab, and so on.
Once you come to the Media screen of the install, select ``Floppy'' and you will be prompted for the rest.