From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 20 11:19:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0723015178 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id UAA20285; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:18:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Gary Schrock Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 3.1-rel either by dos partition or ppp References: <4.1.19990320140329.00a0fac0@eyelab.msu.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Mar 1999 20:18:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gary Schrock's message of "Sat, 20 Mar 1999 14:16:12 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Schrock writes: > Ok, I figure that's no real big deal, I'll just download the parts I need > to the dos partition and try doing the installation like that. So I create > a freebsd directory on c:\ and stick a bin directory under that and > download everything in the bin directory on the ftp site. Go through the > install process, and then when it gets to the point where it tries to > install the distributions I've asked for, it says it can't find the bin > distribution. This should have been the first place you checked. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message