From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 8:47:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 08:47:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmx441-mta.mail.com (rmx441-mta.mail.com [165.251.48.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEED937B402 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from web149-mc (web149-mc.mail.com [165.251.48.145]) by rmx441-mta.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA24300 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:47:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <382240306.977417230720.JavaMail.root@web149-mc> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:47:10 -0500 (EST) From: KillerBunny To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: mail.com X-Originating-IP: 212.17.64.12 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Although all of the suggested installation instructions were followed, i still run into a "Can't transfer bin distribution from ad0s1" error when installing the *minimum* installation. My harddrive is a VIA IDE, and i beleive it was supported as the Partitioning process seemed to work properly. The installation media type is from a Dos partition, 4.2-Release; which i downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org. I *did* use the ckdist.exe tool to verify that the distribution was not corrupted. The entire contents of the 'bin' directory were placed in C:\FreeBSD\bin for the istallation to find them. I have also, though, attempted once or twice to mount my primary Fat32 partition (ad0s1) to "/wnd" and tried installing from this directory as a "UFS Filesystem" (as the installation calls it). Has this type of problem occured in the past with Release 4.2 or is there something that i'm doing wrong here? -Brian ------------------------------------------ ---"301: Keyboard bad or missing. Press return to continue..." ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message