From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 19:11:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BF016A47B for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:11:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lburnerheimerton@yahoo.com) Received: from web30914.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30914.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7264D43D5E for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lburnerheimerton@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 33106 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Dec 2006 19:10:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=emvqJKiTR1NBrwsgx+/C/zsRagcYkXL0MBVUwo9432shA8kKHLiM9W/vVP5C48wHYF2Lp+HyihKJZpH/t9VqesolJOYRfHB5NzKfwPo6sZ2JliQKVOE4LQ4MZr77M1g814mWn9CN0Q01jOEWJRLn+cIczkLf7PRs8cnIGC/9GNk=; X-YMail-OSG: hHUgZGsVM1nXRd_FFLpkYrw6.cZMejGXwu6cVFbjfBHUWxTuk5sWKj5SsLaJUOqZrxOgAjpfv9PJugBuNe1OkJI9XC7f5sMGhaRsK7uyFts5wSiGH6s1y3Wi585swb3GCLX9uIk8m2EZf5A- Received: from [65.12.136.125] by web30914.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:10:04 PST Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:10:04 -0800 (PST) From: l Burnerheimerton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <95538.31971.qm@web30914.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:29:37 +0000 Subject: trouble installing 6.1 on virtual PC 2004 - "Cannot parse information file" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:11:05 -0000 I choose minial installation, NAT, uncheck Attach CD. I have the ISO on my desktop and throw it on the CD picture of the virtual pc which is where I've read it to install to this point so I know that is working. It writes holographic and then I get this error message: "Cannot parse information file for the base distribution: I/O error Please verify that your media is valid and try again." Any ideas or experience installing it on virtual PC 2004? Thanks for any help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com