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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, oldman wrote:

> I am trying to install FreeBSD via an FTP session and cannot manage to
> get the bin distibution. I have tried about 10 of the other mirror sites
> and have had no luck. The rest of the distr ftp's fine? Any Input as to
> why this may be? I have installed fine on 2 other computers in the last
> 2 days just fine.

What error do you get?  

Turn on debugging on the options screen then peek at the ALT-F2 screen
during setup.

I'm looking for when bin.inf is read.  I think there is a bug in
sysinstall.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major