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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE install failure
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Sven Hazejager writes:

>Hi,
>
>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!

You probably included "perl" in the "distributions to install" or
otherwise selected a package for installation.  Packages are not
contained on the "miniinst" cdrom.

--mkb