From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 2 04:28:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 04:28:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com [139.134.5.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA05741 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 04:28:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from BMICK@bigpond.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id fa284367 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 22:21:43 +1000 Received: from DKBH-T-004-p-127-206.tmns.net.au ([139.134.127.206]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Peppy-MailRouter V2.2a); 02 Feb 1999 22:21:41 Message-ID: <000501be4ea6$e24eb820$ce7f868b@BMICK> From: "Michael Berhanu" To: Subject: What is the Problem? Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:23:34 +1100 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 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.0-release for the first time(never tried to install a unix OS before), when trying to install the computer gives me a message along the lines of "unable to find files --bin, manpages--could have selected incorrect media type." This files are on my hardrive [C-(In FAT32 format)]. I am trying to install FreeBSD on another partition. I have asked it several times to install from a dos partition and an existing file system and in both cases it fails. What could be the problem? Thank you Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message