From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 13:02:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA05663 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:02:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA05658 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA04310; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:02:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Barry Masterson cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 2.1.6 -> 2.1.7 & No bin distribution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Barry Masterson wrote: > > > Couldn't extract the following distributions: > > > bin catpages > > > > That's the first time I've seen that from a CD install. What method did > > you use to upgrade? Which option(s) did you select? > > > > 'dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=36b' got the boot.flp image onto the > floppy. With the CD #1 disk already in the Plextor scsi cd drive, I > rebooted the system with the boot.flp disk. OK, I'm beginning to understand. I've never used the bs option when using dd to make boot floppies though. Is your CD SCSI or ATAPI? Your CD may not have been detedcted during setup. After getting the main menu hit scroll lock and scroll up and see if you can find the CD probe message. > The only options I selected, as I remember were setting the > editor to 'vi', and some level of debug messages to YES. OK, that's fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major