Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:59:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "M. Halpin" <mphalpin@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation errors prevents installation Message-ID: <19981008195949.2157.rocketmail@send103.yahoomail.com>
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Not sure if this a bug or what. PLEASE HELP!
Upon trying to install the 3.0 distribution (I tried 4 different
betas, including 10/4 and 10/6) from my FAT32 drive (using DOS as the
media.. this is the way I've done it since 2.2.2), it tells me that it
can't unpack bin, manpages, ports, .etc .etc from the distribution
media. Then, of course, if I try to boot into the freebsd partition,
it goes as far to say it can't find the kernel. System configuration
is as follows, and then a FreeBSD directory list, and then some misc.
notes:
Intel Pentium II at 266Mhz, 32MB onboard SDRAM (168-pin) with an ATI
AGP graphics card
One 3 and 1/2 inch floppy drive
One 3 gigabyte harddrive (primary master), one CD-ROM, and one CD-RW
ISA-based K56Flex modem, PCI-based NE2000-compatible 10BaseT ethernet
card and a PCI-based sound card
Listing of C:\FREEBSD directory is as follows:
Volume in drive C has no label
Volume Serial Number is 2673-1706
Directory of C:\FREEBSD
. <DIR> 09-11-98 10:47p .
.. <DIR> 09-11-98 10:47p ..
BIN <DIR> 10-08-98 6:12a bin
CATPAGES <DIR> 10-08-98 8:59a catpages
COMPAT1X <DIR> 10-08-98 9:22a compat1x
COMPAT20 <DIR> 10-08-98 9:25a compat20
COMPAT21 <DIR> 10-08-98 9:27a compat21
DES <DIR> 10-08-98 9:29a des
DICT <DIR> 10-08-98 9:43a dict
DOC <DIR> 10-08-98 9:50a doc
FLOPPIES <DIR> 10-08-98 10:07a floppies
GAMES <DIR> 10-08-98 10:21a games
INFO <DIR> 10-08-98 10:35a info
MANPAGES <DIR> 10-08-98 10:45a manpages
PORTS <DIR> 10-08-98 11:13a ports
ABOUT TXT 8,972 10-08-98 11:51a ABOUT.TXT
CDROM INF 31 10-08-98 11:51a cdrom.inf
ERRATA TXT 651 10-08-98 11:51a ERRATA.TXT
HARDWARE TXT 20,653 10-08-98 11:51a HARDWARE.TXT
INSTALL TXT 24,177 10-08-98 11:51a INSTALL.TXT
LAYOUT TXT 4,613 10-08-98 11:51a LAYOUT.TXT
README TXT 4,001 10-08-98 11:51a README.TXT
RELNOTES TXT 29,770 10-08-98 11:51a RELNOTES.TXT
TROUBLE TXT 12,429 10-08-98 11:51a TROUBLE.TXT
UPGRADE TXT 7,964 10-08-98 11:51a UPGRADE.TXT
SRC <DIR> 10-08-98 12:11p src
XF86332 <DIR> 10-06-98 1:39p XF86332
TOOLS <DIR> 10-08-98 12:14p tools
10 file(s) 113,261 bytes
18 dir(s) 159,047,680 bytes free
NOTE: In case I had missed something, I run the
\freebsd\tools\setup.exe program, and it said 'bin.inf' was corrupt.
However, I tried downloading this over and over, and comparing it to
the ones online, and there was no difference. This is really confusing.
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