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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:00:11 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.0-RELEASE installation failure
Message-ID:  <3E96E68B.2A972BED@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030411114915.T65036@proxy.chain.loc>

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Sven Hazejager wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE from a CD that was burned using
> the miniinst.iso file. Installation seems to run fine, but after
> installing the base files, it bombs out with the error "Unable to fetch
> packages/INDEX" or something, afterwards the installation is aborting
> completely!
> 
> How do I circumvent this annoying error? I don't need the packages!

Don't tell it to install any.  This is probably "perl".

-- Terry



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