From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 17 21:27:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emdnet.org (adsl-216-101-133-40.dsl.frsn01.pacbell.net [216.101.133.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EA914A08 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darkhalf@emdnet.org) Received: from darkhalf (remote77.remote.mindinfo.com [216.111.121.177]) by emdnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA00678 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:27:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <009301bf3185$7d380d20$b1796fd8@darkhalf> From: "Darkhalf" To: Subject: Sysinstall won't find local distribution via ftp Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:26:37 -0800 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've installed FreeBSD 3.3 quite a few times and this was my first that was not %100 successful. Upon trying to install the local additions collection under distributions it comes back with: Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you've chosen: local I've spent the last day searching the web, newsgroups, etc. for anything like this but haven't come up with anything. I've tried every mirror in the U.S. and one in Canada. Any ideas? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message