From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 20 23:44:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA20911 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA20892 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA21667; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:44:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Joel Mosher cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: More installation help for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199704141930.PAA28502@sable.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Joel Mosher wrote: > Okay, I've followed the previous information on copying the dists to my dos > partition. Only problem is, I keep getting an error message that says > "unable to transfer the bin distribution from wdOs1." > Now, I know for sure that the Bin directory is copied to a Freebsd folder on > my dos partition on the hard drive. What else might I be doing wrong? I > have almost every distribution copied to the partition as well, so I can't > be missing anything. The problem occurs for all installation options, > MInimal, User, whichever I choose. Please help. Thanks. Press ALT-F2 and tell me what you see when you get the 'Unable..' message. The .inf files and the directory heirarchy are often forgotten. Also, this must be done from drive c:, a primary DOS partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major