From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 31 13:19:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA4337B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA84815; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:19:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from dougy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.131), claiming to be "dougy" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdU84811; Wed Nov 1 07:19:15 2000 Message-ID: <009901c04381$458e4dd0$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: , References: Subject: Re: Installation problems with freebsd 4.1.1 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:26:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How did you get on with this ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "James" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: Installation problems with freebsd 4.1.1 > Howdy, > > I hope this is the appropriate place to put a plea for help > > gw machine I'm trying to install bsd 4.1.1 on > dope Windows 2000 machine, which has the installation CD shared (under ftp) > > Setting up the bsd installation program, I put 'any', as the distribution, as it can't seem to find "4.1.1-RELEASE"... > > It connects to my ftp server fine, downloads /bin/bin.inf, and has been sitting there with the message; > DEBUG: parsing attributes file for distribution bin > for the last 20 odd minutes > > > Attached is a ls -la for the root of the CD > > > Any assistance will be gratefully received :-) > > regards > > james > adelaide, south Australia. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message