From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 19:19:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shadow1.fiac.net (unknown [209.12.242.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7809E15201 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:19:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tb@deskmail.com) Received: from toby (ts24ppt45.fiac.net [209.12.242.83]) by shadow1.fiac.net (2.5 Build 2639 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA05963 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:17:19 -0600 From: tb@deskmail.com Message-Id: <199903110417.WAA05963@shadow1.fiac.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:15:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Installing 3.1-RELEASE X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm new to FreeBSD, though I've experimented with Linux (I know, that isn't much help)... Here's my problem: I can't install fBSD from either my hard drive or a homemade CD. I downloaded it from ftp://ftp.ee.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/3.1-RELEASE/, getting EVERYTHING, but when I install from the hard disk I get a failed to find bin error message while copying, and while installing from the CD I get a write error (-1) message. I don't know what the problem is... ------ When installing from the HD, I: + Put fBSD downloaded files into C:\FreeBSD\. The bin folder, along with its files, is in a subdir there, C:\FreeBSD\bin\. + Tried Beginner's install & Expert install + Tried setting release to both "3.1-RELEASE" and "none", per suggestion by the dialog box. When installing from the CD, I: + Created a CD-R (not CD-RW) with all the files in the root (\bin contained the bin). + Tried that CD in both CD drives installed on the computer, first IDE Primary Master, then IDE Primary Slave - my system is set up like this: IDE0 ------> MASTER - CD \---> SLAVE - CD-RW IDE1 -------> 6.4G HD + Tried here to use "none" instead of "3.1-RELEASE" to no avail (see above). ------ I really don't want to have to purchase a CD if possible, mainly because this is an experiment to see if it will be useful in my working environment. +++ I ALSO HAVE a Windows95/DOS partition on the same disk that was 6.4GIG when I started (FAT32) and which I resized to ca. 4GIG via partition magic 4 to make room for fBSD. Am I just missing something off-the-wall or stupid? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message