From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 8:39: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E7E1522B for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:39:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id QAA02792; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:35:45 GMT Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id QAA10388; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:36:12 GMT from exchange.nectech.co.uk (exchange.nectech.co.uk [193.116.199.241]) id QAA10388 (2.4-8.8.8/3.1.31); Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:36:12 GMT Received: by exchange.nectech.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:35:02 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Cc: "'tb@deskmail.com'" Subject: RE: Installing 3.1-RELEASE Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:34:59 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, It sounds as though your problem is due to the name of the directory containing the distribution. The name you should put in the 'release name' field on the options screen is just the directory name the install program cd's to to find the 'bin' directory. Setting it to none makes it look in /bin. If your bin directory is in /FreeBSD/bin (or C:\FreeBSD\bin in DOS), try setting the release name to 'FreeBSD'. How did you download the distribution by the way? Did you use the automatic 'tar' feature of the FTP server? (i.e. type 'get 3.1-RELEASE.tar' even though this file does not appear in the directory listing). I've found this is the easiest way - it ensures you have everything you need. Don't forget to untar it before burning a CD or copying to C: though. Hope this helps, Jeff >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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message