From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 8 20:53:36 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA27302 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:53:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from njmsa.umdnj.edu (njmsa.UMDNJ.EDU [130.219.34.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA27285 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:53:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199612090453.UAA27285@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from addzm95 (msb-ts-slip09.UMDNJ.EDU) by njmsa.umdnj.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.20/16.2) id AA290297207; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:53:27 -0500 From: "David Z. Melczer" To: Cc: Subject: Installation of FreeBSD 2.2 alpha Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:54:48 -0500 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am attempting a clean installation of FreeBSD 2.2 alpha downloaded from the Maine, USA server (www3.freebsd.org). I am attempting to install to an 850meg partition on a SCSI drive with the source on a 600meg partition on the same SCSI drive. For some reason, the install continually fails. The error message generated is that the install program can not find a /bin directory. I have _two_ copies of the source on my disk drive. One is in the g:\FreeBSD\bin directory, and the other is in g:\bin directory. Nothing else exists on the partition. (I figured I'd get a base system going and then install all of the options at a later time!) There isn't a problem detecting the adaptec controllers, the drives, or anything else in my system (although it doesn't seem that any Matrox MGA Millenium drivers exist for Xfree86...but that's later). The only thing I noticed is that on the ftp server, a file exists called bin.mtree (or something like that). Unfortunately, under DOS, this is truncated to bin.mtr (under win95, it is truncated as bin~1.mtr). Could the install program be failing to recognize this file? Any help would be greatly appreciated. As a side note, to your hardware compatibility list, you can add a verification for integrated (on the motherboard) adaptec aic-7860 ultra SCSI protocol chips. My system recognizes it flawlessly. Thank you very much in advance. -David Z. Melczer Systems Administrator Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz internet: dmelczer@wlrk.com PLEASE reply to this message using the following e-mail address: melczeda@njmsa.umdnj.com. Thank you.