From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 10:38:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E030814D3D for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel1.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id KAA18539; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA203427497; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:38:17 -0800 Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id KAA15876; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:38:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903111838.KAA15876@mina.sr.hp.com> To: tb@deskmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.1-RELEASE Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:15:32 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:38:16 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tb@deskmail.com wrote: > 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\. I don't know if this is the problem, but the FreeBSD install process probably expects a RockRidge format CD (which is an extension of ISO9660), and, assuming you burned the CD under Windows, you probably created a plain ISO9660 or Joliet format CD. The result is that the CDROM probably contains all-uppercase filenames, and the install program is probably expecting lowercase names like the ones that you see at the ftp site. Unlike windows, Unix filenames are usually case-sensitive, and so case matters. [ If you used Joliet, which is also an extension on top of ISO9660, Windows can see lowercase filenames, but the FreeBSD install program doesn't understand Joliet, and sees only the underlying uppercase ISO9660 filenames. ] If you have access to a Unix box, your best bet is to create a RockRidge CD image under Unix using "mkisofs" or "mkhybrid", and then transfer the image back to your windows box for burning onto a CD. That's what I did, as an interim solution, while I was waiting for my 3.1-RELEASE CDROM from Walnut Creek. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message